MIDTERM QUIZ

• Your friend just told you that he is developing a worm to attack the administrative systems at your college. The worm is "harmless" and will simply cause a message - "Let's party!" - to be displayed on all workstations on Friday afternoon at 3 p.m. By 4 p. m., the virus will erase itself and destroy all evidence of its presence. What would you say or do?

• ans.

As his/her friend, I might force him/her to abort what his/her planing to do. He might suffer or punished by the administration or being kicked out from school.
If that virus his/her trying to make is "harmless" we shouldn't tolerate or practice students for making one of any viruses even if it is harmless.

• You are the CEO of a three-year-old software manufacturer that has several products and annual revenues in excess of 500 million dollars. You've just received a recommendation from the manager of software development to hire three notorious crackers to probe your software products in an attempt to identify any vulnerabilities. The reasoning is that if anyone can find a vulnerability in your software, they can. This will give your firm a head start on developing parches to fix the problems before anyone can exploit them. You're not sure, and feel uneasy about hiring people with criminal records and connections to unsavory members of the hacker/cracker community. What would you do?

• ans.

I would say "NO". Hackers are one of the biggest enemy of all software companies or even other companies that are usually using computers for their websites. We shouldn't trust anyone to go deeply in the heart of our company to avoid unfavorable publicity or for them to know our business secrets nor security.