The California court hearing this case sided with Hamidi, that no ...

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The California court hearing this case sided with Hamidi, that no real harm was caused
  to Intel, noting that traditional letters and telephone calls to employees would have been
  comparable to the e-mail in terms of harm to the company.

 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Regardless of what he intended, his worm caused substantial harm to numerous
  installations around the country.

 
  What will be an ideal response?

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Answer to Question 1

The dissenters in this case,
however, argued that Intel had invested in its e-mail system to make the company more
productive and Hamidi was interfering with that. Assess these two positions using
philosophical reasoning to justify one view or the other.

Answer to Question 2

In those early days of the Internet, it appears that the
government might have been using him as an example to discourage other secretive
computer users from trying anything similar. Defend the government's action in
prosecuting and punishing him, using ethical reasoning.