1- Is there such a thing as an ethical reason for unauthorized access to a computer...

1- Is there such a thing as an ethical reason for unauthorized access to a computer system?

2- One way to secure a network from attack is by blocking all incoming traffic. But is such a measure practical? Imagine running a network in different types of organizations (a bank, a university, and others). Would this be the ideal way to protect the organization's network from attack? Why or why not?

Expert Solution

1) the key word here is "unauthorized". Accessing an Unauthorized system by law, can be ethical, i think, although not legal. I think this is the point where you use your judgment of right and wrong. If it meant getting into some criminals personal file to catch him then i would feel its right.

2) Yes, you're stopping someone exploiting vunerabilities in services you expose through your router to the Internet, by not having any.

But, there are other possible attacks. What if you initiate a connection from inside, and the attacker has compromised the other end? Or if the attacker is pretending to be the other end (man in the middle). Or what if the attacker exploits a vulnerability in your router software? Or breaks into your house? Or social engineers you into telling them your mail password? Or steals your offsite backups?

So yes, it works as described, and if you do not need to expose any services to outside you should block everything incoming: but there are other ways to attack your network.

Hope this helps you. Please give an upvote. Thank you.

venereology answered 1 year ago

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