Consider the following situations. For each situation, answer the following questions: Is it legal or illegal? If illegal, why (which law or body of law)? If legal, is it ethical? If not, why not (which element of IEEE Code of Ethics)?
a) Telling your neighbor that the factory burned down (before being publicly announced)
b) Buying a competitor’s product at Best Buy and taking it apart
c) Buying a competitor’s product at Best Buy and giving it to a city employee in order to get a contract for your company
d) Hiring the brother of an employee of your biggest customer so the customer will give you more business.