Chapter 24 – Legal and Ethical Aspects
TRUE/FALSE QUESTIONS:
T F 1. The legal and ethical aspects of computer security encompass a broad
range of topics.
T F 2. Computer attacks are considered crimes but do not carry criminal
sanctions.
T F 3. “Computers as targets” is a form of crime that involves an attack on data
integrity, system integrity, data confidentiality, privacy, or availability.
T F 4. 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.
T F 5. No cybercriminal databases exist that can point investigators to
likely suspects.
T F 6. The successful use of law enforcement depends much more on
technical skills than on people skills.
T F 7. Software is an example of real property.
T F 8. An example of a patent from the computer security realm is the RSA
public-key cryptosystem.
T F 9. A servicemark is the same as a trademark except that it identifies and
distinguishes the source of a service rather than a product.
T F 10. 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.
T F 11. The purpose of the privacy functions is to provide a user protection
against discovery and misuse of identity by other users.
T F 12. 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.
T F 13. Computer technology has involved the creation of new types of
entities for which no agreed ethical rules have previously been formed.
T F 14. Anyone can join the Ad Hoc Committee on Responsible Computing.
T F 15. The first comprehensive privacy legislation adopted in the United
States was the Privacy Act of 1974.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS:
1. _______ 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. Any intangible asset that consists of human knowledge and ideas is _______.
A. cyber property B. personal property
C. intellectual property D. real property
6. _____ can be copyrighted.
A. Dramatic works B. Architectural works
C. Software-related works D. All of the above
7. The copyright owner has which exclusive right(s)?
A. reproduction right B. distribution right
C. modification right D. all of the above
8. A _______ for an invention is the grant of a property right to the inventor.
A. patent B. copyright
C. trademark D. claim
9. 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
10. _____ strengthens the protection of copyrighted materials in digital format.
A. HIPPA B. DMCA
C. WIPO D. DRM
11. A ________ provides distribution channels, such as an online shop or a Web retailer.
A. content provider B. distributor
C. consumer D. clearinghouse
12. ________ 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
13. ________ 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
14. ______ 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
15. ________ 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
SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS:
1. _______ 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.
2. The 2001 _________ is the first international treaty seeking to address Internet crimes by
harmonizing national laws, improving investigative techniques, and increasing
cooperation among nations.
3. The U.S. legal system distinguishes three primary types of property: real property,
personal property, and _________ property.
4. The three main types of intellectual property for which legal protection is available are:
copyrights, patents, and _______.
5. The invasion of the rights secured by patents, copyrights, and trademarks is ________.
6. The right to seek civil recourse against anyone infringing his or her property is granted to
the ________.
7. The three types of patents are: utility patents, design patents, and ________.
8. 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.
9. ________ 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.
10. 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.
11. The ___________ Act places restrictions on online organizations in the collection of data
from children under the age of 13.
12. Privacy is broken down into four major areas: anonymity, unlinkability, unobservability,
and _________.
13. _______ 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.
14. The _________ Act confers certain rights on individuals and obligations on credit
reporting agencies.
15. Both policy and ________ approaches are needed to protect privacy when both
government and nongovernment organization seek to learn as much as possible about
individuals.
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