From the course: Ethics in Cybersecurity
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Global impact
The debate around ethics in cybersecurity has been at the heart of some well-publicized events that have impacted global politics. Let's turn our attention to the global stage for a moment. Edward Snowden. Just saying his name is enough to evoke some powerful emotions among cybersecurity professionals. Some folks hail him as a hero, while other folks believe he should be tried, imprisoned, and executed. When Snowden was an NSA analyst, he used his access to expose a data mining program known as PRISM, a program that many privacy advocates believe was both unconstitutional and an overextension of the agency's authority. Before Snowden, there was Chelsea Manning. While Manning served as an intelligence analyst in the US Army, she had access to hundreds of thousands of classified documents that detailed military operations. Manning released nearly 750,000 documents to WikiLeaks, including a video of a military helicopter firing on a group of men that included two journalists working for…
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