Law and Ethics in IT

Please write a paper your analysis of the case below. Share your reasoning, thoughts and analysis, not a reiteration of the story. Professor Mark is a professor teaching at Colorado Baptist University. What you dont know is that he has another life under the shadows working as a hacker. His alias is Benz. Benz is a well-known hacker of extraordinary capabilities. Everybody in the hacking world knows Benz. Benz uses a super-duper device to do all of his hacking. This device is both wifi and cellular enabled. Two days ago, someone hacked into Morphosis, the largest social media company in the world, boasting two billion users. The hackers locked Morphosiss systems and threatened to disclose users private information, unless Morphosis pay two million Bitcoins to an undisclosed cryptocurrency wallet. The FBI suspects that Benz is the mastermind behind the Morphosis hack. The FBI sent requests and demands (based on the Stored Communications Act) to all three major cellular carriers hoping to find digital signatures/information of all individuals/cell phone numbers active in the vicinity of Morphosis server farms, during the estimated time of the hack. The FBI received in return from the carriers, four hard drives containing three petabytes (3,000 terabytes) of data. Remember, the Stored Communications Act, does not require a warrant. The FBI found nothing useful in the data received linking the hack to Benz. Serendipitously, Professor Mark was involved in a serious car accident, his car was rear-ended by a soccer mom driving her kids to a game. The police showed up to investigate the accident and noticed a computing device inside Professor Marks car that has the engraved inscription of the word Benz on it. The traffic cop became suspicious, open the rear door of Professor Marks car, and took possession of the computing device. As a result of that, Professor Mark was identified as Benz and arrested immediately.

Q. Assume you work for the FBI as a cybersecurity analyst. After not finding anything linking Benz to the hack from the cell carriers data, what can you or should you do help the FBI to identify Benz? (There is no right answer to this question. It is an exercise to help you to use your technical knowledge in a real work situation.)