CS 349 Contemporary Issues in Computer Science
Alan Cline

Elaine Rich

What’s Right?

Choose one of the following issues:

· The Jammie Thomas-Rassett case

· Should sending spam be illegal?

· The use of the Stuxnet worm to cripple Iran’s nuclear efforts (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/world/middleeast/16stuxnet.html)

· Videogame censorship (http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2011/06/27/254812/supreme-court-rules-against-video-game-censorship-7-2/?mobile=nc )

· Wikileaks

Choose one of the ethical frameworks that we have discussed in class.

Write a short paper (500 – 1,000 words) analyzing your chosen issue using your chosen ethical framework.