Question

Your group is a committee of prosecutors, computer scientists, and members of the hacking community who oppose malicious and destructive hacking. You have been asked to evaluate specific hacking cases and recommend penalties. Tell what other information, besides what is given below, you consider relevant and how your decision would depend on it. Most of these are real cases. The unauthorized access in each case is illegal, and you may assume that the right person was caught. The law allows long jail sentences for some of these offenses. However, you do not have to use any existing law to determine the penalty. Decide what you think is reasonable and explain your reasons.

issue 1: A 28-year-old college student was charged with breaking into military and government computers, gaining control of a NASA system, and interrupting business at an Internet service provider. He did not disrupt national defense or meddle with satellite controls.

Answer 1

Answer:

• Before applying any standard or evaluate the crime, we need to check the scale of damage arisen with such malicious attacks.
• The monetary and imprisonment are based on the action of the attacker.
• The predictability and controllability by the provisions should be determined.
• The programs should be installed for scanning the vulnerabilities.
• Before punishing we should request for damage compensation.