Scenarios
Quinn introduces four scenarios at the beginning of Chapter 2.
Alexis
Black List
East Dakota State Police
First to Market
Scenarios
Alexis
Black List
State Police
First to Market
Alexis
Alexis, a gifted student needs a scholarship to attend college to become a doctor.
Alexis surreptitiously uses a local college student's account to complete an extra research assignment for a course.
Alexis gets an A in the course.
With straight A's, Alexis a full ride scholarship.
Black List
An anti-spam organization attempts to get ISP's in a foreign country to stop spammers by protecting their mail servers.
When that fails, the organization blacklists the ISP's.
Many U.S. ISP's refuse to accept mail from the black listed ISP's.
Spam in the U.S. is reduced by 25%.
Legitimate users of the blacklisted ISP's are unable to communicate with people in the U.S.
East Dakota State Police
EDSP has video cameras on all interstate overpasses to catch speeder.
Video is run through facial recognition software.
The FBI requests access to the information and EDSP complies.
As a result, the FBI arrests five members of a terrorist organization.
First to Market
You are a senior software engineer leading the development of an important product.
A competing company is developing a similar product to be released soon.
A big customer has been led to believe your product will be available next week.
It will take another month to complete testing of your product.
Your company will go out of business if it doesn't release the product next week.