ITGS #8

News article title: Passcode hack lets thieves unlock Apple iPhones

URL: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/9870536/Passcode-hack-lets-thieves-unlock-Apple-iPhones.html

Brief description of situation: In this article it shows us how the iPhone lock screen can now easily be bypassed thanks to a security flaw that renders the device accessible to hackers.

 Key stakeholders: Apple,  people using this kind of method, hackers.

IT system involved: System that allows easy passcode lock entrance using a new method.

Related issues of social and ethical significance:

Security, privacy and anonymity, and authenticity. All of these have something in common that is the no privacy you would have is you were the person with Iphone so it disrespects all the rights a person has to their privacy.

Areas of social impact:

Economic and morally. By knowing how to enter that easily an Iphone the price of this product would decrease and morally cause its just not right to enter to the things that that specific person doesn’t owns.

Evaluating the impacts:

Yes. Short, they will fix the problem. All of them. Large group, all the people that use this kind of phone. Global. Yes, but is a problem that can be controlled rapidly.

Conclusion:

The hackers and the apple system on being such weak. The value of that brand and product would decrease. Modify the security software and with that the phone would keep their high profile and value in the markets all over the world.