hacking

Hacking
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Week 4
In your opinion, in what (if any) circumstances can hacking be justified and why?
In some circumstances, hacking can be satisfied. Hackers have often claimed that they are helping showcase weakness in the computer systems. By hacking they will be helping secure information from damaging attacks. Hence hacking will be justified if the intention is to secure the company computer systems. Another reason why hacking will be justified is when the information which needs to be obtained is of national importance (Caldwell, 2011). Such information which is needed for national security reasons and the only way to it can be accessed is through hacking, this circumstance will warrant hacking as the only ways of accessing this information. Hacking will always help improve product quality, and also help expose criminal activities, such as corruption and various malpractices.
In your opinion, how far should a companies monitoring abilities extend over their employees? (Can they monitor emails, internet traffic, what about keystrokes, phone calls, etc.)
Monitoring employees is one of the major issues when it comes to human resources management. Companies have different ways of monitoring their employees; these include computer monitoring, spying, wiretapping and eavesdropping and video surveillance. Though critics have argued that monitoring can lead to abuses, breach of employee privacy. Employees should be monitored so that productivity is increased, and have control of the working environment (Caligiuri, Day, 2000).

Employees should be monitored depending on their work environment and the sensitivity of the data they are handled, doing this will ensure that employees are responsible for what they do.
In your opinion, how far should a government monitoring abilities extend over their citizens?
Government monitoring activities should be extended to the citizens. The tension of balancing between national security and privacy has been a thorn in the flesh to most governments. Governments should monitor their citizens if the information which is being tapped is of national importance. Personal privacy should not override national security concerns, and this should be applicable to every government across the world (Dinev, Hart & Mullen, 2008). Monitoring people will also maintain morality in communities; governments must ensure what people are looking at online are good for maintaining good morals in the society.

References
Caldwell, T., 2011. Ethical hackers: putting on the white hat. Network Security, 2011(7), pp.10-13.
Caligiuri, P.M. and Day, D.V., 2000. Effects of self-monitoring on technical, contextual, and assignment-specific performance: A study of cross-national work performance ratings. Group & Organization Management, 25(2), pp.154-174.
Dinev, T., Hart, P. and Mullen, M.R., 2008. Internet privacy concerns and beliefs about government surveillance–An empirical investigation. The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 17(3), pp