Exam 8: Protecting People and Information

Which of the following can a virus do?

Due to the massive amounts of information gathered about customers, what type of software is one of the fastest growing areas of software development?

Intellectual property is tangible creative work that is embodied in physical form.

What law in Canada covers on-line privacy and embodies several provisions relevant to the area of email marketing, under which umbrella spamming falls?

E-mail is completely secure.

_____ is the right to be left alone when you want to be, to have control over your own personal possessions, and not to be observed without your consent.

Which of the following records logons and deletions?

A computer virus may spread across many hundreds of computers before it is detected.

What is phishing?

With respect to the circumstances that surround making an ethical decision, _____ is the length of time will it take for the benefit or harm to take effect.

A(n) _____ examines information passing through switches, hubs, or routers.

Downloading a song or album from the Internet is usually not a violation of intellectual property laws.

What program records every keystroke and mouse click executed on a computer?

In Canada (as in most countries), a person cannot legally make even one backup copy of software.

How can you block a business' attempt to store information about your Web activities?

Key logger, or key trapper software, is software that records sounds.

Ethics are the principles and standards that guide our behavior toward other people.

_____ is a technique used to gain personal information for the purpose of identity theft.

Copyright is the legal protection afforded an expression of an idea, such as a song, video game, and some types of proprietary documents.

Which of the following is the unauthorized use, duplication, distribution, or sale of copyrighted software?