Code of Ethics: Case 4 - Unauthorized Access

In case 4 it is talking about hacking account. An instructor had allotted a fixed time for each student to access the computer to finish their project. And one of the student that ever work at a computer center hasn't done his/her project yet, so he/she hacked into the instructor's account and adjust the time to be longer in order to finish the project. 

According to this case, the code of ethics is violated because in the ACM code it says that everyone has to be:

     - Be honest and truth-worthy.

     - Be fair and take action not to discriminate.

     - Respect privacy of others.

And in this case, the student is not being honest because without telling the instructor, she made a change to the time and this wouldn't be fair to those other students that are not done with their project. Thea action that she's hacking the instructor's account is considered not being respectful to the privacy of others. 

According to the case, here are the consequences:

• By not being honest, the instructor might not let student work on project on their own with the computer anymore since the student are un-trust-able, probably she/he would stayed next to the student next time.

• By not being fair and finished the project her/himself because of hacking the account and adjust the time, the other students might seek you as a cheater and instructor might have bad impression of you and perhaps, yourself and your grades might get effected too. 

• By not respecting the privacy of other is very bad and dangerous. In this case is just between instructor and student, so the instructor might give you detention or more works, less grades or even contact your parents etc. But if you are in the real world and you don't respect other people's privacy, they can actually sue you and put you into the jail, so is very important to respect other peoples privacy. 

Instead of being and acting like this, they should be honest and respect to other people's privacy (just like what they mentioned in ACM). Also they should be responsibility in making decision so they wont harm the others. By doing these the result will be --> Because you think carefully, and decided not to do it, this won't harm anyone even yourself. But if you decided to hack the account, then you should be responsibility of what you've done, and don't blame the others.


-  Access computing and communication resources only when authorized do so.
-  Avoid injuring others, their property, reputation, or employment by false or malicious action.