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What makes an ethical issue 'important' or 'significant'? - Answer when its associated harms
or benefits have a substantial possibility of making a difference to certain individuals' chances of
Having a good life
True or False: Ethical challenges are not as important as other types of engineering because the
potential harms and benefits are more virtual than real - Answer False
Why is it difficult to recognize the ethical nature of cybersecurity practice? - Answer
Cybersecurity efforts are often hidden from public view
Under what circumstances are poor cybersecurity practices actually unethical? - Answer When
it involves the expert knowingly allowing something bad to happen, they accidentally allow it to
happen or they intended on such a practice happening. Ignorance, accident, intent. All make the
instance unethical.
True or False: Unauthorized harm to property, such as encrypting a victims hard drive in a
ransom ware attack, are also unethical because they injure persons who rely on the property to
secure good lives for themselves. - Answer True
True or False: The principle of transparency and disclosure necessitates that it is always ethical
to disclose software vulnerabilities once discovered. - Answer False
True or False: Because the ethical issues facing cybersecurity professionals are highly complex,
they are always subjective (i.e., there is never a clear right or wrong in terms of ethics). - Answer
False
True or false: For Cybersecurity professionals, ethical obligations to private family members
always trump ethical obligations to the public. - Answer False
An example of ethical obligation cyber professionals have tot the public - Answer Make a best
effort to protect private data collected by your organization from being public ally exposed.
Another well-known deontological system is that of the 18th century philosopher Immanuel
Kant, who identified a single moral rule called the BLANK - Answer Categorical imperative
How does a cyber professional create special ethical obligations? - Answer Cybersecurity
professionals secure a vital public good, not just a private good
, True or False: The nature and details of cybersecurity professionals' obligations to the public are
always clear and do not vary based on the particular circumstances of specific situations -
Answer False
Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) 1986 - Answer Applies to information to compel
service providers to disclose stored communications. Applies to stored data in servers,
computers, or the cloud.
Electronic Communication Server (ECS) - Answer Any service which provides to users Theron
the ability to send or receive wire or electronic communications
Remote computing services(RCS) - Answer The provision to the public of computer storage or
processing services by means of an electronic communications systems
ECPA Section 2701 - Answer Makes it a criminal offense to access an ECS without authorization
or in excess of authorization
ECPA Section 2702 - Answer Restricts the ability of ECS and RCS to disclose communications
and consumer records to private parties or government
ECPA Section 2703 - Answer Allows the government to access communications that have been
stores for 180 days or less. The government still need a warrant.
ECPA (Electronic Communications Privacy Act) : Stored Communications - Answer Regulates
ability to compel service providers to disclose stored communications
ECPA (Electronic Communications Privacy Act) : WireTap Act - Answer Restricts the
governments ability to monitor communications in transit
ECPA (Electronic Communications Privacy Act) : Pen Register Act - Answer Restricts the ability
to collect non-content information (metadata)
Virtue Ethics - Answer Focus not on rules for good or bad actions, but on the qualities of
Marsala excellent person
Utilitarian ehtics - Answer whichever action among those available to me is most likely to
boost the overall sum of happiness in the world is the right action to take, and my moral
obligation