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Ransomware: Ethical Dilemmas Explored

Ransomware encrypts victims' data and demands payment for the decryption key, creating an ethical dilemma for targets. These attacks often begin with phishing emails containing malicious attachments or drive-by downloads exploiting websites. For companies, refusing to pay can mean permanent data loss and business shutdowns, while paying supports criminal networks. Studying science, technology and society is important for understanding how innovations like ransomware develop and impact privacy, and for informing responsible development that considers associated ethical issues.

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Ransomware: Ethical Dilemmas Explored

Ransomware encrypts victims' data and demands payment for the decryption key, creating an ethical dilemma for targets. These attacks often begin with phishing emails containing malicious attachments or drive-by downloads exploiting websites. For companies, refusing to pay can mean permanent data loss and business shutdowns, while paying supports criminal networks. Studying science, technology and society is important for understanding how innovations like ransomware develop and impact privacy, and for informing responsible development that considers associated ethical issues.

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Ransom ware 

Holding data hostage until you pay up, whether you’re an individual or a large
corporation.

1. What is the emerging ethical dilemma all about?

Companies hit by ransomware are faced with an ethical dilemma: pay up to


save their now-encrypted data, or hold the moral high ground and lose it all. ...
In most cases, the perpetrators attempt to encrypt a business's data and then
refuse to share the decryption key unless a ransom is paid.

2. What factors or events led to this dilemma?

Ransomware is often spread through phishing emails that contain malicious


attachments or through drive-by downloading. Crypto ransomware, a malware
variant that encrypts files, is spread through similar methods and has also
been spread through social media, such as Web-based instant messaging
applications.

3. What are the societal implications of this dilemma?

The impacts of a ransom ware attack to your company could include the
following: temporary, and possibly permanent, loss of your company's data.
Possibly a complete shutdown of your company's operations. Financial loss as
a result of revenue generating operations being shut down.

4. Why is it important to question the moral and ethical issues


surrounding innovations in science and technology?

In this innovation personal privacy of everyone can be exposed by the help of


technology so that is why every website they are terms and condition that we
must read before continuing of the process because 1 mistake can cost every
personal information that you have can that be exposed.

5. In the face of this dilemma, why is it important to study STS?

In studying STS, we will understand relationship of science and technology


about the innovation. In the future technology will dominate the human kind
with the help of science it will make a big impact in our future and the next
generation.

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