Case Study: Firesheep • October 2010: Eric Butler released Firesheep extension to Firefox browser Firesheep made it possible for ordinary computer users to easily sidejack Web sessions • More than 500,000 downloads in first week • Attracted great deal of media attention Early 2011: Facebook and Twitter announced options to use their sites securely Kantian Analysis Accessing someone else's user account is an invasion of their privacy and is wrong Butler provided a tool that made it much simpler for people to do something that is wrong, so he has some moral accountability for their misdeeds Butler was willing to tolerate short-term increase in privacy violations in hope that media pressure would force Web retailers to add security • He treated victims of Firesheep as a means to his end According to Kantian Analysis, It was right for Butler to release Firesheep. True False

Case Study: Firesheep • October 2010: Eric Butler released Firesheep extension to Firefox browser Firesheep made it possible for ordinary computer users to easily sidejack Web sessions • More than 500,000 downloads in first week • Attracted great deal of media attention Early 2011: Facebook and Twitter announced options to use their sites securely Kantian Analysis Accessing someone else's user account is an invasion of their privacy and is wrong Butler provided a tool that made it much simpler for people to do something that is wrong, so he has some moral accountability for their misdeeds Butler was willing to tolerate short-term increase in privacy violations in hope that media pressure would force Web retailers to add security • He treated victims of Firesheep as a means to his end According to Kantian Analysis, It was right for Butler to release Firesheep. True False

Database System Concepts

7th Edition

ISBN:9780078022159

Author:Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan

Publisher:Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan

Chapter1: Introduction

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