Someone hacks your Facebook account and posts all your personal stuff online. They also insert a page with stuff you didn\u2019t write that makes you look like a horrible person. The hacker emails 15 of his friends and says he got all the stuff, including the nasty bits, from your account. His friends show all this stuff to everyone at school and they tell them it all came from your account.<\/p>\n
Almost everyone at school, even the teachers, now hates you and tells you so. You tell everyone that the nasty bits are fake and that you didn\u2019t write them. But the teachers don\u2019t believe you. They say that because most of the stuff is true the nasty bits must be as well. They post some of the pages on the school website highlighting the nasty bits and tell everyone not to talk to you.<\/p>\n
Some of your friends speak up for you and point out some flaws in the faked parts that prove they are forgeries. The flaws are substantial enough to actually identify the hacker. The hacker then confesses but only to hacking your account. He says he got the page with the nasty bits anonymously in the mail and that he only\u00a0hacked your files to find out if they were true. You\u2019re shocked because at the same time he was\u00a0hacking your files you had invited him to come and talk to your friends.<\/p>\n
The teachers ignore the evidence of forgery and then try to justify the hacker\u2019s actions, saying that although document phishing and impersonation is wrong, the hacker is a \u201chero\u201d because they always thought you were a horrible person; horrible persons are increasing and the school is heading towards a horrible person catastrophe.<\/p>\n
Q: Discuss the ethical implications of what just happened. There are bonus marks if you can work in a reference to polar bears.<\/p>\n
From here <\/a>– it’s worrying when something this obviously<\/em> unethical is not taken seriously, because it would jeopardise the message<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Someone hacks your Facebook account and posts all your personal stuff online. They also insert a page with stuff you didn\u2019t write that makes you look like a horrible person. The hacker emails 15 of his friends and says he … Continue reading