Question: Through analysis of this case and answer the questions below: You are a student at a major public university working as an IT help assistant

Through analysis of this case and answer the questions below:

You are a student at a major public university working as an IT help assistant and are sent to your school's dean's office. The dean has been having problems with her computer and you are the right student for the job. The dean leaves as you settle in to "debug" the computer and you immediately notice they have a version of "bit-torrent" running and is ripping the entire catalog of Rush and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Oddly enough, your roommate was recently thrown out of college for engaging in such activityas it is clearly against university policy.

1) Should you keep quiet, inform university officials of the Dean's behavior, or...? Explain.

2) In your deliberations consider what ethical principles you are relying on. Briefly describe these principles.

3) What, if anything, does this case have to do with security?

4) Pick Kant, Mill, or a feminist (ethics of care) ethicist. How would this theorist answer this case? Explain.

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