You are a software engineer at a small company. You have written a software program that will be used by a major manufacturer in a popular product line. Your supervisor asks you to install a “back door” into the program that no one will know about so that he can monitor its use by the public. What do you do?

a. Install the back door, since it sounds like a fun experiment.

b. Tell your supervisor that you can’t do it without authorization from the end user.

c. Install the back door but then deactivate it before the software is implemented.

d. Stall your supervisor while you look for another job.

Use the Engineering Ethics Matrix.