Computer Ethics

Question 1

List the 6 factors that determine how you decide ethical issues.

Answer 1

Consequences, Society’s opinion, Likelihood of effect, Time to consequences, Relatedness, and Reach of result.

Question 2

What is intellectual property?

Answer 2

Intangible creative work that is embodied in physical form.

Question 3

What is copyright?

Answer 3

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

Question 4

What is a trade secret?

Answer 4

Novel ideas not in public domain. Employees must sign nondisclosure agreement.

Question 5

What is a patent?

Answer 5

Grants exclusive monopoly for 20 years, idea must be disclosed publicly.

Question 6

What is the Fair Use Doctrine?

Answer 6

Says that you may use copyrighted material in certain situation - for example limits, for teaching of new work or within certain limits, purposes.

Question 7

Who owns e-mail at work?

Answer 7

The employer.

Question 8

What are employers doing to monitor their employees’ use of the internet?

Answer 8

Monitor e-mail and personal use of internet.

Question 9

When you send an e-mail, how many computers does it go to?

Answer 9

At least 4.

Question 10

Why do companies monitor employees’ use of the internet?

Answer 10

Legal Liability (68%), Security Concerns (60%), Productivity measurement (46%), Legal Compliance (50%), and Performance Review (45%).

Question 11

What is a cookie?

Answer 11

A small record deposited on your hard drive by a Web site Containing information about you and your Web activities.

Question 12

What is adware?

Answer 12

Software to generate ads that installs itself on your computer when you download some other program from the Web.

Question 13

What is Trojan - Horse software?

Answer 13

Software you don’t want hidden in software you do want.

Question 14

What is spyware?

Answer 14

Software that comes hidden in free downloadable software and tracks your online movements, mines the information stored on your computer, or uses your computer’s CPU and storage for some task you know nothing about.

Question 15

What is a Web log?

Answer 15

A line of information for every visitor to a Web site and is usually stored on Web server.

Question 16

What is clickstream?

Answer 16

Records information about you during a Web surfing session such what Web sites you visited, how long you were there, what ads you looked at, and what you bought.

Question 17

What types of government agencies have sensitive information about individuals?

Answer 17

NCI, FBI, NSA, IRS, Census Bureau, Student Loan Services, FICA, Social Security, Welface Records.

Question 18

What is a computer virus?

Answer 18

Software the is written with malicious intent to cause annoyance or damage.

Question 19

What is a worm?

Answer 19

A type of virus that spreads itself, not just from file to file, but from computer to computer via e-mail and other internet traffic.

Question 20

What are some security precautions that you cant take to protect your computer?

Answer 20

Backup, Anti-Virus Software, and firewall.

Question 21

What is biometrics?

Answer 21

The use of physical characteristics - such as your fingerprint, the blood vessels in the retina of your eye, the sound of your voice, or perhaps even your breath - to provide identification.

Question 22

What is the definition of computer crime?

Answer 22

The commission of illegal acts through the use of a computer or against a computer system.

Question 23

List 6 types of computer crime?

Answer 23

Spamming, Hacking, Jamming, Worms/Viruses, Sniffing, and Spoofing.