Discussion

Please pick 3 characters and disucss each in one-two paragraph.

Situations:

The families of two hospital patients who died as the result of a virus in a hospital computer are suing each of the people listed below and arguing the government to bring criminal charges for negligence against each of them. You can put yourself to be in the following characters. Pick 3 caracters to discuss. In each of this level of responsibility, how would you decide?

StudentCharacter_1: A student in a course on computer security at a small college who post a copy of the virus program on the class Web site, with a discussion of how it works.

StudentCharacter_2: The student activated the virus program and released it onto the Internet.

StudentCharacter_3: The president of the college.

StudentCharacter_4: The president of the college’s ISP.

StudentCharacter_5: The director of the hospital whose computer system the virus infected, causing patient medical records to be unavailable for a full day, resulting in the death of the two patients.