Deck 19: Legal and Ethical Aspects

Question 1

No cybercriminal databases exist that can point investigators to
likely suspects.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Concerns about the extent to which personal privacy has been and
may be compromised have led to a variety of legal and technical approaches to reinforcing privacy rights.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

An example of a patent from the computer security realm is the RSA
public-key cryptosystem.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Computer technology has involved the creation of new types of
entities for which no agreed ethical rules have previously been formed.

Question 5

The successful use of law enforcement depends much more on
technical skills than on people skills.

Question 6

A servicemark is the same as a trademark except that it identifies and
distinguishes the source of a service rather than a product.

Question 7

The legal and ethical aspects of computer security encompass a broad
range of topics.

Question 8

Software is an example of real property.

Question 9

The purpose of the privacy functions is to provide a user protection
against discovery and misuse of identity by other users.

Question 10

The success of cybercriminals,and the relative lack of success of law enforcement,influence the behavior of _______.

A)cyber thieves
B)cybercrime victims
C)cybercrime acts
D)cyber detectives

Question 11

The first comprehensive privacy legislation adopted in the United
States was the Privacy Act of 1974.

Question 12

Anyone can join the Ad Hoc Committee on Responsible Computing.

Question 13

The relative lack of success in bringing cybercriminals to justice has
led to an increase in their numbers,boldness,and the global scale of their operations.

Question 14

Computers as targets is a form of crime that involves an attack on data
integrity,system integrity,data confidentiality,privacy,or availability.

Question 15

Computer attacks are considered crimes but do not carry criminal
sanctions.

Question 16

Personal effects,moveable property and goods,such as cars,bank accounts,wages,securities,a small business,furniture,insurance policies,jewelry,patents,and pets are all examples of _________.

A)intellectual property
B)real property
C)personal property
D)cyber property

Question 17

_______ is a form of crime that targets a computer system to acquire information stored on that computer system,to control the target system without authorization or payment,or to alter the integrity of data or interfere with the availability of the computer or server.

A)Computers as targets
B)Computers as storage devices
C)Computers as mediums
D)Computers as communication tools

Question 18

Land and things permanently attached to the land,such as trees,buildings,and stationary mobile homes are _______.

A)real property
B)cyber property
C)personal property
D)intellectual property

Question 19

The Common Criteria specification is primarily concerned with the
privacy of personal information concerning the individual rather than the privacy of an individual with respect to that individual's use of computer resources.

Question 20

Any intangible asset that consists of human knowledge and ideas is _______.

A)cyber property
B)personal property
C)intellectual property
D)real property

Question 21

The right to seek civil recourse against anyone infringing his or her property is granted to the ________.

Question 22

A ________ provides distribution channels,such as an online shop or a Web retailer.

A)content provider
B)distributor
C)consumer
D)clearinghouse

Question 23

________ ensures that a user may make multiple uses of resources or services without others being able to link these uses together.

A)Anonymity
B)Pseudonymity
C)Unobservability
D)Unlinkability

Question 24

The U.S.legal system distinguishes three primary types of property: real property,personal property,and _________ property.

Question 25

A(n)_________ may be granted to anyone who invents or discovers any new and useful process,machine,article of manufacture,or composition of matter,or any new and useful improvement thereof.

Question 26

________ is a function that removes specific identifying information from query results,such as last name and telephone number,but creates some sort of unique identifier so that analysts can detect connections between queries.

A)Anonymization
B)Data transformation
C)Immutable audit
D)Selective revelation

Question 27

The 2001 _________ is the first international treaty seeking to address Internet crimes by harmonizing national laws,improving investigative techniques,and increasing cooperation among nations.

Question 28

________ is a method for minimizing exposure of individual information while enabling continuous analysis of potentially interconnected data.

A)Immutable audit
B)Selective revelation
C)Associative memory
D)Anonymization

Question 29

A _______ for an invention is the grant of a property right to the inventor.

A)patent
B)copyright
C)trademark
D)claim

Question 30

______ is intended to permit others to perform,show,quote,copy,and otherwise distribute portions of the work for certain purposes.

A)Reverse engineering
B)Personal privacy
C)Fair use
D)Encryption research

Question 31

The copyright owner has which exclusive right(s)?

A)reproduction right
B)distribution right
C)modification right
D)all of the above

Question 32

________ rights may be used to prevent others from using a confusingly similar mark,but not to prevent others from making the same goods or from selling the same goods or services under a clearly different mark.

Question 33

The three main types of intellectual property for which legal protection is available are: copyrights,patents,and _______.

Question 34

The three types of patents are: utility patents,design patents,and ________.

Question 35

The invasion of the rights secured by patents,copyrights,and trademarks is ________.

Question 36

_____ can be copyrighted.

A)Dramatic works
B)Architectural works
C)Software-related works
D)All of the above

Question 37

A ______ handles the financial transaction for issuing the digital license to the consumer and pays royalty fees to the content provider and distribution fees to the distributor accordingly.

Question 38

_____ strengthens the protection of copyrighted materials in digital format.

A)HIPPA
B)DMCA
C)WIPO
D)DRM

Question 39

_______ or cybercrime,is a term used broadly to describe criminal activity in which computers or computer networks are a tool,a target,or a place of criminal activity.

Question 40

A ______ is a word,name,symbol,or device that is used in trade with goods to indicate the source of the goods and to distinguish them from the goods of others.

A)copyright
B)patent
C)trademark
D)all of the above

Question 41

Both policy and ________ approaches are needed to protect privacy when both government and nongovernment organization seek to learn as much as possible about individuals.

Question 42

Privacy is broken down into four major areas: anonymity,unlinkability,unobservability,and _________.

Question 43

The ___________ Act places restrictions on online organizations in the collection of data from children under the age of 13.

Question 44

_______ refers to a system of moral principles that relates to the benefits and harms of particular actions,and to the rightness and wrongness of motives and ends of those actions.

Question 45

The _________ Act confers certain rights on individuals and obligations on credit reporting agencies.