Patricia Dunn is with Hewlett-Packard no more. It all started with a leak; somebody was giving out important company secrets. And with all the deft Hollywood style gumshoe-esque thinking Ms Dunn hired Private Investigator Ronald DeLia to find out just who it was. The Private Investigators posed as H-P directors, as journalists, and more to root out the information. But more to the point, all you really need is a social security number and a valid zip code and you can pose as the person and hack your way in. This my friends is called pretexting. I am NOT going to ask you if pretexting is morally acceptable. That would be way too easy. What I want to know is: Should Patricia Dunn have been forced to resign? Write a 5-7 page paper answering this question and upload it to coursenet by the end of this module, of course making your argument out in utilitarian and deontological terms. Click Here for an explanation of pretexting and what you can do about it, or at least why you should care, from the Federal Trade Commission For a good explanation of the case, please read: Suspicions and Spies in Silicon Valley; In a business saga, how Pattie Dunn''s obsession with trying to root out the source of press reports ended with the covert tracking of directors'' phone records.; [U.S. Edition Edition] David A. Kaplan. Newsweek. New York: Sep 18, 2006. Vol.148, Iss. 10; pg. 40 For more information please read Liar, Liar, and Pretexting Mark Rasch, 2006-09-19 Of course, please search Google and our library for more information; this is an MBA level course and I expect to see a good amount of outside references; be creative.