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Psychology is the study of mind behavior and mind. It concerns the biological influences, social pressures, and environmental factors that affect how people think, act, and feel.

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13 Jan 2023
In 2019, Paige Thompson, a former Amazon software engineer obtained the credit applications personal information of more than 100 million people making it one of the largest breaches ever reported. Capital One says that information includes names, birth, dates, credit scores and social security numbers. Thompson joined Amazon in 2015 to work at Amazon Web Services, a division that hosted the Capital One data she accessed. In June 2022, she has been found guilty of seven federal crimes connected to her scheme to hack into cloud computer data storage accounts. Prosecutors at the US District Court in Seattle used Thompson's text and online chats to show how she built a tool that scanned accounts for misconfigurations and leveraged those to her own benefit. Among over 30 entities Thompson hacked was Capital One bank. The breach cost the bank millions. The US Treasury fined Capital One 80 million dollars for the breach, and the bank also settled a class-action lawsuit with customers for 190 million dollars. According to a press release by the Department of Justice, Thompson's hacks also involved planting crypto miners on various servers, with earnings going to her online wallet. Not only did Thompson spend hundreds of hours building the hacking tools, but she also went on to brag about her illegal activities in online forums and via text messages. Thompson, who went by the alias 'erratic' online, was found guilty of Wire fraud, five counts of unauthorized access to a protected computer, and damaging a protected computer. The penalty for Wire fraud is up to 20 years in prison, with illegal access punishable by up to 5 years in prison.
 
Based on the ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct, explain TWO general ethical principles that can be applied in the above news summary. (At least 150 words)
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7 Nov 2022

First Task: The Exercise for Your Imagination
John Rawls introduces his reader to several concepts fundamental to a thorough account of the idea of justice: Liberty; equality; rights; and fairness. But he is deservedly of philosophical interest because of the way he fulfills his aim, which is “...To present a conception of justice which generalizes and carries to a higher level of abstraction the familiar theory of the social contract as found in Locke, Rousseau, and Kant” (Pojman 620, Lt). Rawls introduces an imaginary device in order to establish the conditions under which “the principles of justice for the basic structure of society...would (be accepted)” (620 Lm). It is these conditions, Rawls’ “initial position of equality,” and his device for establishing them, “the veil of ignorance,” that I would have you think about for your exercise (620 Lm and 620 Rm): “The veil of ignorance...ensures that no one is advantaged or disadvantaged in the choice of principles by the outcome of natural chance or the contingency of social circumstances” (620 Rm).

As an exercise of the imagination, you are asked, as Rawls asks us all, to imagine yourself in the “initial position of equality” under “the veil of ignorance.” Discover for yourself if doing so is or is not conducive to a genuine sense of fairness, as you prepare to make “one of the most general of all choices which persons might make together, namely ...the choice of the first principles of a conception of justice which is to regulate all subsequent criticism and reform of institutions” (621 Lt).


Second Task: The Writing Assignment
Please number your responses:
1. Describe your experience. Take the time to do so as completely as you are able.
2. How did this exercise affect your understanding of the section titled “The Reasoning Leading to the Two Principles of Justice” (624 Lm). It requires an effort to do so, but try to justify your response with direct reference to your own experience of imagining and reading, not to associations or thoughts gathered from any other source. Provide\ relevant quotations to focus your reader’s attention.
3. Relate your experience to Rawls’ “Two Principles of Justice,” especially concerning his denying “exchanges between basic liberties and economic and social benefits” (624 Rb). Be as descriptive as you are able, using direct quotations as support.
4. What is your opinion of Rawls’ “General Conception” (627 Rb)? Use quotations to assist in your explanation.

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25 Sep 2022

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