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 ind

In fact, a virus could be destroying someone's personal property. I have seen vandalism get worse punishment. As in most crimes though, there are only two options we can scare them straight with punishment. Or we can attempt to rehabilitate them and teach that doing harm upon others is not right.

In either of these cases it is always a hard decision. It needs to be based on the past history and also on the severity of the crime. Also, we will not know if it works or not. You can ban somebody from the internet but I don't think we have the ability to actually follow through with some of these punishments. Some of these people are the most intuitive computer experts in the world and they are in the art "above the law". With the training and expertise that they have it is always going to be more lucrative to go to crime. It's for this reason I think we have to purt the most strict limitations on t

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