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chapter 5
Please use correct grammar, punctuation, spelling, and good writing style; stay on topic. The response to each prompt should be in a paragraph form, and between 250 and 300 words. 5.29 Find a dozen news and/or magazine articles about hackers from mainstream media from the past few years. How are hackers described, as criminals or heroes? Give examples 5.31 Find a use of biometrics in your city. Describe the application and its benefits and risks. 5.33 Suppose a denial-of-service attack shuts down two dozen major websites, including retailers, stock, brokerages, and large corporate entertainment and information sites, for several hours. The attack is traced to one off the following perpetrators. Do you think different penalties are appropriate, dependent on which it is? Explain why. If you would impose different penalties, how would they differ? A foreign terrorist who launched the attack to cause billions of dollars in damage to the U.S. economy. An organization publicizing its opposition to commercialization of the Web and corporate economy. A teenager using hacking tools he found on a website. A hacker group showing off to another hacker group about how many sites it could take down in one day.
