Refusing a law enforcement request to place a network sniffer on your network is appropriate because doing so would:

Refusing a law enforcement request to place a network sniffer on your network is appropriate because doing so would:

• A. Violate your contract
• B. Cause network congestion
• C. Make you an agent of law enforcement
• D. Write information to the subject hard drive

Answer: (D)

The action being tested is the potential intrusive impact of deploying a network sniffer under a law enforcement request. Accepting the request could require placing software or a device that not only monitors traffic but also writes data onto the subject’s hard drive (for example, storing captured information locally on the target machine). This kind of data writing is a direct alteration of the subject’s system and can raise serious privacy, legal, and evidentiary issues. Refusing is appropriate because enabling any process that writes information to the subject’s drive goes beyond passive observation and can amount to covert surveillance or tampering with the subject’s data. The other possibilities are less central to the act of deploying a sniffer. It’s not inherently about violating a contract, causing network congestion, or becoming an agent of law enforcement; the stronger, more concrete risk is that the deployment could write information to the subject’s hard drive, which is the core concern regarding unauthorized data manipulation.

The action being tested is the potential intrusive impact of deploying a network sniffer under a law enforcement request. Accepting the request could require placing software or a device that not only monitors traffic but also writes data onto the subject’s hard drive (for example, storing captured information locally on the target machine). This kind of data writing is a direct alteration of the subject’s system and can raise serious privacy, legal, and evidentiary issues. Refusing is appropriate because enabling any process that writes information to the subject’s drive goes beyond passive observation and can amount to covert surveillance or tampering with the subject’s data.

The other possibilities are less central to the act of deploying a sniffer. It’s not inherently about violating a contract, causing network congestion, or becoming an agent of law enforcement; the stronger, more concrete risk is that the deployment could write information to the subject’s hard drive, which is the core concern regarding unauthorized data manipulation.