Monday, April 14, 2014

Consent: yes or NO

 1-  What is implied consent?  When, if ever, is implied consent morally acceptable?  When is it necessary to obtain explicit consent?  Give some examples--they don't have to deal with the body and sex, as these examples do, but they should *not* be associated with computers.
 
    Implied consent as consent which is not expressly granted by a person verbally, but rather inferred from a person’s actions or movements; movements that stablished a way of communicating, thsi cosnsent is usually given by the situation or the moment that this person is living or going through.
   in many cases implied cosent is morally aceptable, one of those cases being when a person(A) fell in love with another person(B), person if is smart woudn't go straight to person B and admit his/her feelings. what person A would do is usually, become friends and do certain things fro person B, things that might help person A win the heart of person B. Person A probably haven't said a word about his feelings, but through his actions, and way of speaking he has clearly showed person B, that he/she likes her/him. if person B doesn't stop that; then she/he is giving his/her consent for person A to keep trying to win his/her heart.
  if things work out good, and both persons A & B, accept to start a relationship, is there where the explicit consent is needed. neither of the person can determine if the other want to start the relationship unless this person says so. but as one of the articles said, a person implicit consent doesn't mean anything sometimes, many times you need to get the consent verbally.


2. How does the problem of implied vs. explicit consent apply to computers, and specifically, to ethical hacking?  When would an ethical hacker need to make use of this concept?

   implied vs explicit consent apply to computer when a person working on the IT industry signs a contract.
   this person will receive in his contract what duties he is responsible for, this contract will give the person the explicit consent to perform his task whithout fear of being prosecuted, but with that consent also comes implicit consent because while he try to perform the task written on the contract, he might need to perform another task in order to accomplish the main one. is here where he would use implicit concent in order to get the job done, but when doing this he sould make sure that his task which was carreid out using implicit ocnsent, doesnt surpass his job boundaries, menaind to no to do anything uncessary, or anything taht isn't needed to perfomf his main task.
    An Ethical Hacker need to make use of this consent whenever he gets a job. His contract might be to look at a certain type of issue, data, or equipment or to look for certain evidence (computer forensic). through out the searching and data collection regarding this issue, the hacker might encounter another type of problem, or evidence here he need to decide if he want to use implicit consent or no. Also, whenever an ethical hacker is hired to pen-test a network, he must do only taht "hack" the network and expose the security flaws, he should never try to collect data, that he isn't authorized to it.

1 comment:

  1. Interesting choice for an example for the first part--the idea of being open to having someone "win your heart" gets at generally the idea of being open to persuasion. Do we have to give consent for someone to try to persuade us of something--anything? Or is it something where consent is implied to exist as the default setting, and we are under an obligation to withdraw consent to be persuaded if we don't want to be persuaded? How does persuasion connect to penetration testing?

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