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A worm is infecting systems by exploiting a bug in a popularserver program. It is spreading rapidly, and systems where it isdeleted quickly become reinfected. A security researcher decides tolaunch a counterattack in the form of a defensive worm. Whenever abreak-in attempt comes from a remote host, the defensive wormdetects it, heads off the break-in, and exploits the same bug tospread to the attacking host. On that host, it deletes the originalworm. It then waits until that system is attacked, and the cyclerepeats.
- Many people would claim that launching a counterattack in thisscenario is ethically unacceptable. Give at least three argumentsthat support this view.
- Are there circumstances or conditions under which acounterattack would be ethically justified? Explain yourreasoning.
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