Deck 19: Legal and Ethical Aspects

Question 1

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

Answer 1

A

Question 2

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

Answer 2

True

Question 3

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

Answer 3

True

Question 4

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

Question 5

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 6

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

Question 7

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

Question 8

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

Question 9

Computer attacks are considered crimes but do not carry criminalsanctions.

Question 10

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

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

Question 11

_______ 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 12

Software is an example of real property.

Question 13

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

Question 14

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

Question 15

Anyone can join the Ad Hoc Committee on Responsible Computing.

Question 16

No cybercriminal databases exist that can point investigators tolikely suspects.

Question 17

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

Question 18

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 19

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

Question 20

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

Question 21

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 22

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

Question 23

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

Question 24

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

Question 25

________ 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 26

_______ 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 27

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

Question 28

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

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

Question 29

________ 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 30

________ 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 31

________ 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 32

The copyright owner has which exclusive right(s)?

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

Question 33

______ 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 34

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 35

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

Question 36

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

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

Question 37

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 38

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 39

_____ strengthens the protection of copyrighted materials in digital format.

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

Question 40

_____ can be copyrighted.

A) Dramatic works
B) Architectural works
C) Software-related works
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

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

Question 43

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

Question 44

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

Question 45

_______ 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.