Implicit or explicit consent blog post.

1. Implied consent means giving consent on something without verbally expressing it, and the consent is communicated through people’s actions and the circumstances in which those actions take place. One example of morally acceptable implied consent could be when the assumption of that the well being of many is seen as more important than an individual explicit consent. For example: if a person wants to go through airport security before getting on an airplane this person is not asked whether she or he might want to consent to be in some way inspected and scanned by airport security guards. In another scenario, when someone is in danger and needs help it is morally acceptable to believe that the person in need is giving implied consent to another person to assist regales of how intrusive the other person presence can be. Example: a police officer is not allow to walk inside someone’s home without a warrant, but if the police officer feels that the people in a house may be in immediate danger then he possibly will be inclined to walk right in the house thinking that his presence may be needed without someone expressing it.

2.Contracts, contracts, contracts….. If a business agrees to pay a security consultant to do pen testing on a business’ computer network, this business is giving the consultant the implied consent to use every tools available for hacking and some of these tools may include: installing malware on computers, social engineering, trespassing, etc. the consent given to the security consultant to conduct the pen test must be explicit for the purpose of creating an exemption to what other ways could be seen a breaking the law. A contract expressing explicit agreement from both the security consultant and business should to be written in details of what can or can't be done during a pen test.