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Your best friend, Jonathon, spends all his free time writing computer programs that interact with the Windows operating system. He recently informed you the during fall break he had written malware that randomly erases files and displays weird messages the day before Independence Day (July 3) at exactly 1:00p.m. He plans to distribute the Trojan horse, called Happy Birthday America, via an attachment to an e-mail message. Also included with the e-mail message is a hidden programs that sends the same e-mail message to all the e-mail addresses in the user\'s address list. The e-mail message with the attachment will be sent as spam the day after finals in May, so that it will have ample time to be distributed to millions of computers worldwide before July 3. You know that a large software company offers a hefty reward of $250,000 for turning in unscrupulous programmers. Discuss if you think it is right to inform on a friend when no profit is involved in the crime. Include in your discussion who you would notify (i.e., Jonathon\'s parent, the dean of students, the police, or the software company offering the reward) if you choose to turn him in.

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The thing is that when a person is trying to do such type of things first of all each and everyone should oppose and should slowly explain the person who is involved in such activities about the damage that causes to the society.

And as you said that there is company that offers huge reward, i personally do not inform the person or let the person to go to such job positions.

Instead one can guide the person to go in the right way using the same talent and become an ethical hacker so that there are still many companies paying out huge for the ethical hackers for the purpose of securing there own organisations fom the attacks caused by the hackers.

And if should inform some one then i would inform about him to the parents and tell them to guide and assist their son to go in the right way.