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So we've got two weeks until our CompSci Prof wants us to give presentations to the class. It would've been nice if he'd given us the assignment a bit earlier ... five people in the group, hard to get together because we're all full time employees and full time students.
The assignment is a fifteen-minute power-point presentation discussing the ethics of the Dutch hacker who tried to alert Microsoft to a security vulnerability in their software, but after being told to "fuck off", used the security vulnerability to leave a nasty message on their home page. Our group has decided to go with a pro-position, that the hacker's actions, although wrong when taken out of context, were justified by the protection offered to computer users when Microsoft employees fixed the hack.
The information offered by our prof is lacking. He didn't even provide us the Dutch Hacker's name. All of us in the group agreed we'd heard something similar happening recently -- and I'm going to study up on the HP scandal in the news to determine if this case might be something similar -- but does anyone know any specific information on this Dutch Hacker case, or of other similar cases?
Isn't there a whistle-blower involved in HP? I'm not certain, but I think it'd be something along the lines of: "Something bad happening, someone noticing it, trying proper lines of resolution, then taking matters into own hands to get resolved." But, like I said, I'm not entirely certain what's going on with HP -- haven't been following it or done research on it -- so I don't know if HP would fit. And, mind you, I didn't say HP was similar, that I needed to do some more research on that.
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HP's board of directors was busy pursuing an innovative Stasi-based policy. It doesn't have anything to do with their products or hackers or anything like that, though, but is instead all about media leaks.
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Wait...i thought you graduated from Towson?
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