Midterm Quiz

1. You are the CEO of a three-year-old software manufacturer that has several products and annual revenues in excess of 500 million dollars. You've just received a recommendation from the manager of software development to hire three notorious crackers to probe your software products in an attempt to identify any vulnerabilities. The reasoning is that if anyone can find a vulnerability in your software, they can. This will give your firm a head start on developing parches to fix the problems before anyone can exploit them. You're not sure, and feel uneasy about hiring people with criminal records and connections to unsavory members of the hacker/cracker community. What would you do?

Answer:
As the CEO of the company I would do everything to protect my product even if my life, I will be exchange for the sake of the company.

4. Your friend just told you that he is developing a worm to attack the administrative systems at your college. The worm is "harmless" and will simply cause a message - "Let's party!" - to be dispalyed on all workstations on Friday afternoon at 3 p.m. By 4 p. m., the virus will erase itself and destroy all evidence of its presence. What would you say or do?

Answer:
I would tell my friend that he should not continue his plan, because the worm is harmless, it's
still play around with the system, even if there's a reason it's still unnecessary.