Describe a case:
The topic that I choose is that a 15 year-old teenage hacker
arrested over FBI computer hack. A teenager from Scotland got arrested by
British Police for breaking into the FBI Systems on 16th February. “A
Police Scotland spokesman said: 'Following a search of a property in the
Glasgow area on Tuesday, February 16, a 15-year old male was arrested in
connection with alleged offences under the Computer Misuse Act 1990.”. He is a
member of the hacktivist group named “Cracka with Attitude”.
Moral reasoning:
I think what he did is totally wrong, because he actually
hacked into the FBI systems, which are extremely private. Under the Computer
Misuse Act 1990 of the Parliament of the
United Kingdom, he broke the law of “Unauthorised access to computer material”
(section 35). In my opinion, FBI is an powerful agent of the United States, all
of their information are sensitive. Breaking into the FBI computer system could
be damage very important information, or at least leading the way for other
hackers to the next attacks. As my knowledge, the FBI employees nearly 35000
people, what would happen if those people got leaks of their information, such
as phone number, email address; and they would be in sensitive positions too.
“If they can’t secure their digital doors, there’s no reason to think any
branch of government can.”
The example of FBI information leaks is that hacker
publishes contact info for 20,000 FBI employees.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/hacker-dumps-info-thousands-homeland-security-workers-article-1.2524440
These information leaks have done by the “Cracka with
Attitude” group – where the boy is a member of it. The information of about
9,000 DHS (Department of Homeland Security) employees and 20,000 FBI agents
have leaked out. That information including: Names, Job titles, phone numbers,
email addresses.
As I know, the FBI is an intelligence-driven and
threat-focused national security organization, it investigates international
terrorism, foreign counterintelligence, cyber crime. So it would hold a ton of information
related to major concerns. When the hackers gain the access to the FBI computer
systems, they would break into that information, how dangerous it is when that
information is given to the bad guys’ hands.
While doing this research, I also concern that the FBI is
one of the US intelligence agency. They probably have strong security, but they
still got hacked, got leaked of information of their employees. How strong do
other organizations need to protect their consumers? Whenever we sign up for
something online, we are feeding the Big Data, and our privacy is threatened by
hackers.
Philosopher:
I chose Anita L. Allen.
“While individuals have a moral responsibility to protect
their own privacy, Big Data represents a challenge that points to the need for
collective and political approaches to self-protection rather than solely
individual, atomistic approaches. Fortunately, although business and government
are “all in” with Big Data, privacy concerns are getting some of the attention
they deserve from policymakers and researchers. As we push business and
government to address the complex threat to privacy posed by Big Data, we can
also look forward to ways Big Data may improve the experience of privacy and
private life.”
Contextualize:
As Allen says, Big Data is a threat with our privacy. A lot
of hackers out there, try to get our information anytime. The hacking act of
the 15 year old boy is one of many examples of hacking into the US agency. As I’ve
talked above, our information in the data of many organization is in the threat
too.
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