3a

Suppose a 16-year old releases automatic-dialing software that will flood the emergency 911 telephone system with calls, knocking out service. He claims he was experimenting with the software program to purchase a large number of tickets be prosecuted for exceeding authorized access to the site? Why or why not?

3b

Identify several issues raised by this scenario:

Someone in California posts on amazon.com a very critical review of a new book written by a British author. The review says the writer is an incompetent fool without a single good idea; he cant even express the bad ideas clearly and probably did not graduate from grade school; and he should be washing dishes instead of wasting the readers time. The author files a lawsuit for libel in England against the reviewer and Amaon.

3c

I have a message M=32 that I want to encrypt. Given the two prime numbers, p=5 and q=11, find the public and private key. Then encrypt the message. When using brute force search to determine the keys, just pick the first one (lowest number) that works.