Brainstorming

Brainstorming

Brainstorming: 1 page essay. 

• List all the people & organizations affected (the stakeholders) and their rights.
• List risks, issues, problems, and consequences, and to whom they pertain.
• List potential benefits. Identify who gets each benefit.
• Cite applicable legal considerations and class terms.
• Identify vague or missing information in the scenario and how that would potentially affect your decision.

Scenario 4: 3 MIT students planned a presentation at a security conference describing security vulnerabilities in Boston’s transit fare system. At the request of the MBTA, a judge ordered the students to cancel the presentation and not to distribute their research. The students are debating whether they should circulate their paper on the Web.

Scenario 8: Your company has 25 licenses for a computer program, but you discover that it has been copied onto 80 computers. What should be done?

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The stakeholder affected by the decision includes the students, Boston transit authority and the attendees of the DEF CON hacker convention. Both the students and attendees of the convention have the right to air their research related to hacking…