Deck 1: Ethics of Hacking and Cracking

Question 1

Hacking requires that the practitioner be intimately familiar with the techniques of the perpetrator or opponent.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

The reading and techniques used by both ethical and malicious hackers are identical.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Making money is a rare motive among all classes of hacker.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Viruses are indiscriminate in their damaging effects, but only expert hackers can set one loose.

Question 5

The protection of data provided to organizations or stored on personal computers is a high priority.

Question 6

The ____ model is derived from old Western genre movies where the "good guys" always wore white hats and the "bad guys" always wore black hats.

A)White Hat/Black Hat
B)White Box/Black Box
C)White Protector/Black Demon
D)White Spy/Black Spy

Question 7

"____" hackers are evidence that the dichotomy of good and evil is NOT a very good fit to the real world.

A)Gray Spy
B)Gray Box
C)Gray Hat
D)Gray Service

Question 8

____ hackers have limited computer and programming skills, and rely on toolkits to conduct their attacks.

A)Cyber-punk
B)Coder
C)Old guard
D)Novice

Question 9

____ hackers act as mentors to new hackers. They write scripts and tools that others use.

A)Old guard
B)Coders
C)Hacktivists
D)Internal

Question 10

The profession of ____ is emerging from a chaotic set of conflicting ethics from both the hobbyist and student communities and those on the information technology career track.

A)network analysis
B)security response
C)network security
D)network response

Question 11

Computer ____________________ is the term for illegally hacking into a computer system without the permission of the system's owner.

Question 12

____________________ are the principles of conduct that govern individuals, groups, and professions.

Question 13

The first password hacks were a response to the ___________________________________, developed in the early 1960s and first loaded on an IBM mainframe at MIT.

Question 14

In the 1970s, phone phreaks, a new sort of hacker, appeared. They used various methods, collectively called ____________________, to access telephone networks to make free calls from payphones.

Question 15

____________________ is a security professional who applies his or her hacking skills for defensive purposes.

Question 16

How are hackers commonly categorized?

Question 17

What are some of the hackers' motivations?

Question 18

Explain "love for puzzles" as a motivation for hackers.