Homework 4: Social and Ethical Responsiblity
Objectives
When you have finished this homework, you should have demonstrated your ability to analyze a problem, describing security flaws and possible legal issues associated with a computer system.
Discussion
In order to tighten campus security, the University has decided to place monitoring devices at all automobile entrances to campus. These devices include a camera which takes a picture of the driver and a second camera that takes a picture of the license plate. The system will transmit these images over a wireless network to a central location where the images, along with meta-information will be stored in a database. The database will be available to all officers on the campus police force, but only on computers physically located in the police station.
- Provide a list of potential security flaws associated with this system.
- Describe two of these security flaws in detail.
- Describe how these two security flaws can be mitigated.
- Provide a list of potential legal and or ethical issues associated with this system.
- Describe one of these legal/ethical issues in detail.
- Describe how this legal/ethical issue can be mitigated.
This will be graded for content and form. You must support your arguments.
Submission
Please upload your document to the D2L assignment folder Homework 4 by the due date of December 12 at class time.
In addition, please turn in a hard copy of your paper at the beginning of class on that day.