1) In Section 5.2.2, we described the incident in which a hacker group hacked into the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system to protest BART’s shut down of wireless communication in some BART stations. Was this a form of hacktivism? Was it ethical? Give reasons.
The term hacking has a number of different definitions, and may have positive or negative depending on the situation and people affected or not. A group hacked into the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system and released emails, passwords, and personal information about a few thousand BART customers. It was done to protest BART's controversial shutdown of wireless communication in several BART stations to thwart a planned protest demonstration. People who agree with the political or social position of the hackers will tend to see an act as "activism," while those who disagree will tend to see it as ordinary crime. …show more content…
(See Section 5.2.6.) Would you support such a law? Why?
I would support a law making the writing and publication of a computer virus a crime. The increase use of computers in this information age, especially in critical infrastructures, a law will help slow down cyber – crime. Computer viruses can be perpetrated instantaneously and its effects can spread with incredible quickness.

3.) In Section 5.3.2, we gave an analogy between merchants accepting some amount of shoplifting, on the one hand, and merchants and credit card companies accepting some amount of credit card fraud, on the other hand. Identify strength and a weakness of this analogy.
Strength
• Merchant and CC companies benefit by customers returning to