A Newsweek article about a year ago has a class of cyber security problem at Sonoma State University described. It is a course on how to create computer viruses and how to penetrate the best antivirus software itself. The teacher insists that his students not evil, and he tries to teach the students how hackers to think researching cures. “You cannot really have a plan of defense, if you do not know what the other guy is offended," he says.

The companies fighting their livelihood viruses are not with what's going make you happy in this class. Some security companies have also vowed no pupils who find this course instead. In a sense, the program is a disguised attack on McAfee, Symantec and other antivirus software companies, the teacher sees as mostly useless: "If students can beat these anti -virus programs, he argues, what are people and businesses to $ 5 billion per year spend on them?”

The teacher hopes that his students put what they learn in his course for a good cause, of course, how the students use their knowledge when they leave the classroom, is beyond their control.

Is offering a college course on how to create computer viruses and other "malware" morally justified? Persuasively defend your answer by drawing upon appropriate theories and concepts you have studied during this course.