University IT Ethics Essay: Mobile Threats, Spoofing Enterprise Apps

This essay examines the ethical implications of mobile threat spoofing in enterprise applications. It argues that such practices are unethical due to their potential to compromise sensitive user information and facilitate illegal activities. The essay employs four classical ethical theories—utilitarianism, deontology, contract theory, and virtue ethics—to support its stance. Utilitarianism is used to demonstrate that the disadvantages of the application outweigh the benefits, while deontology highlights the inherent wrongness of the actions. The contract theory emphasizes the lack of transparency and informed consent, and virtue ethics focuses on the damage to individuals and organizations. The conclusion is that the use of mobile threat spoofing applications is unethical and should be avoided.

Running head: IT ETHICS
IT ETHICS - MOBILE THREATS SPOOFING ENTERPRISE APPS IS
UNETHICAL
Name of the University
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Mobile threats spoofing enterprise application is unethical
Mobile threat spoofing application is unethical as it has the potential to impact the
sensitive information related to the users. Thus from the case study it can be stated that this
application possess some real threats towards the information of the user. This information will
be further used for gaining money by performing illegal methods. Moreover it is observed that
there is a high chance of losing the money related to people that is maintained by an
organization. There is a high threat from spoofing activity towards the society. Thus the
organization needs to think significantly about the harms that will come with this application.
However the organization states that this application will be used for the purpose of
gaining information from terrorist for protecting the peoples from attacks. But there are several
reasons to state that the mobile threat spoofing application is an unethical app and should not be
used by the organization.
According to the utilitarianism theory of ethics an act is considered to be legal when it is
able to provide maximum benefits towards a huge number of people. However from this case
study it can be stated that the number of benefits obtained with this application is less than the
disadvantages. The application has the ability to effect the sensitive information stored.
Moreover the application has the potential to cause damage too an individual or towards an
organization. Thus it can be stated that these is an unethical act.
According to the deontological theory of ethics every act needs to be assessed based on
the individuality of that activity. That is to what extent the activity is right or wrong instead of
focusing on the results. After analyzing the case study it is observed that there is a high chance of

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using this application for the purpose of gaining money by illegal ways. The spoofing application
itself does not state any exact benefit and its main objective is to steal the information from an
individual or an organization. Thus it is illegal and does not fit into the ethics criteria.
According to the contract theory of ethics an activity is stated to be legal if it is
performed by following the contract. While accessing this application the user needs to know the
functioning effectively so that it can be analyzed at the time of implementation. However the
ethics act is stated as illegal and unethical for the organization.
The last theory of ethics is virtue ethics that focuses on assessing the moral character that
is possessed by an employee or the organization. Everyone associated with the organization
needs to perform in a way that it can add better benefit towards the organization. The use of this
spoofing application will lead to damage the people and organization. Thus from the case study it
can be stated that the use of this application will impact everyone to great extent. Information
gained will impact the individuals on a great extent. Thus it can be stated that using mobile
threats spoofing enterprise application is unethical.

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