Ali has chosen improvement of commercial systems and security threat as a research subject for his Informatics
Question:
Ali has chosen improvement of commercial systems and security threat as a research subject for his Informatics Ethics course. He develops an algorithm for the purpose of implementing his project in a practical process. He can find the security vulnerabilities of the companies’ network systems with this algorithm. He releases that he can reach the security vulnerabilities of some companies with this algorithm and he adds these vulnerabilities to his project as a result of a semester’s work. Advisor professor decides that Ali has done a good project and gives him a very high project grade. When one of the companies that Ali has entered searches the source of the attack, they find university laboratory as a source of this attack and informs the chancellery of his university.”
Is Ali’s action regarding what he did in his project morally justifiable?
Please use Kantianism and Act utilitarianism theories to answer the question.
Methods of IT Project Management
ISBN: 978-1557536631
2nd edition
Authors: Jeffrey Brewer, Kevin Dittman