One of my favorite computer security talks is this one, given by Alex Stamos in 2013: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEeHTQHTSgE https://www.youtube.com/watch?

One of my favorite computer security talks is this one, given by Alex Stamos in 2013: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEeHTQHTSgE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEeHTQHTSgE The whole talk is very worthwhile, and I recommend watching it. Near the end of the talk, he essentially teaches a quick ethics class, describing a few hypothetical situations and discussing what the right option would be. At the end, he expresses how important it is to think about these things in advance, because it’s a lot easier to make the morally right decision if you’ve taken the time beforehand to consider what is morally right. Sometime after giving the talk, he joined Yahoo as CISO. There, he encountered one of the exact scenarios he described at 45:00 in his talk. (You may remember it, the Yahoo government spying story that came out last year: http://www.businessinsider.com/marissa-mayer-secret-yahoo-security-2016-10 http://www.businessinsider.com/marissa-mayer-secret-yahoo-se...) For what it’s worth, he resigned quietly, exactly what he said in the talk that he would do in that situation. I guess that demonstrates that he had the right idea to consider ethical dilemmas in advance. It certainly led me to think about issues I might encounter in my work.