Computer Ethics
CRITICAL POSITION PAPER ON ETHICAL ISSUES RELATED TO PRIVACY
I decided to pick the Robert Morris case in chapter four for my scenario to discuss. I believe this case has several ethical problems that we need to deal with. First of all, there is the obvious act that Robert Morris intentionally created and distributed a virus, knowing that it was capable of severely damaging networks. However, he did say that once he realized what he had done he tried to stop it. And at a time when viruses were so new and uncommon he vary well may have made some mistakes.
While trying decide different approaches to dealing with the problem I came across a line “viruses are bad”. I thought to myself how is a virus bad. A virus is no worse than a steak knife. They both could be very useful tools very bettering our lives, and they could also both be tools of malicious misconduct. This virus that Morris made was indefinitely not going to be a useful tool. Therefore, I am left with only the conclusion that whether or not he intended on using it, it was created
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