Exam 14: The Personal and Social Impact of Computers

A computer hacker is someone who intimidates or coerces a government or organization to advance his or her political or social objectives by launching computer-based attacks against, computers, networks, and the information stored on them.

____________________ is software installed on a personal computer to intercept or take partial control over the user's interaction with the computer without knowledge or permission of the user.

Just over 300,000 crimes were reported to the Internet Crime Computer Center in 2010 and this represents the majority of computer-related crimes.

Just because an act is defined as legal does not mean that it is ____________________.

______ is a small program hidden in a network or computer system that records identification numbers and passwords.

Patent laws protect processes, machines, and compositions of matter.

Role-based system access means that only people who fill or used to fill a certain role can access a specific system.

A useful guideline to protect corporate computers from criminal hackers is to ____.

Software is considered intellectual property and may be protected by copyright or ____________________ law.

If a court determines that a patent infringement is intentional, it can award up to _____ to the patent holder.

The use of e-mail among public officials might violate "open meeting" laws.

The federal agency to which identity theft complaints are made is the ______.

Both SOPA and PIPA are two bills proposed by congress that aim to __________________.

To obtain a patent or to determine if a patent exists in an area a company seeks to exploit requires a search by the U.S. Patent Office; these can last longer than 25 months.

Phishing has become such a serious problem that several companies have formed the Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance group to provide improved e-mail security and protection from phishing.

If an activity is defined as legal then it is ethical.

The FBI's Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide encourages agents to consider dumpster diving as a technique to gain information.

Multinational companies face an extremely difficult challenge in implementing data collection and dissemination processes and policies because of the multitude of differing country and regional statutes.

Posting information to the Internet using anonymous e-mail accounts or screen names makes it impossible to identify the poster.

A script bunny is a young, female computer hacker.