Digital Law, Ethics &Intellectual Property
The legal protections that grant original creators exclusive rights to reproduce, distribute, perform, display, or adapt their creative works.
What is Copyright Laws?
A dangerous form of malware that encrypts a victim's files, databases, or operating system, rendering them inaccessible until a monetary ransom (frequently in cryptocurrency) is paid to the attacker.
What is Ransomware?
High-speed, volatile temporary storage used by the CPU to hold the operating system, running applications, and active data currently in use.
What is Memory? (RAM-Random Access Memory)
The intangible collection of instructions, programs, code scripts, and routines that direct computer hardware on how to execute tasks.
What is Software?
A fictional animal that is half Lion half Eagle.
What is a griffin/griffon/gryphon?
A legal doctrine that allows limited use of copyrighted material without acquiring permission from the rights holder, typically for purposes such as criticism, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research.
What is Fair Use?
The criminal offense of obtaining and misusing another person's personal identification or financial information (such as Social Security number, name, or credit card) without authorization, usually for financial gain.
What is Identity theft?
Non-volatile digital media designed to preserve operating systems, software programs, user files, and media long-term, even when the computer is turned off.
What is Storage?
The visual layout, screens, menus, buttons, icons, and interactive elements through which a human user interacts with and controls a computer or software program.
What is User Interface (UI)?
The fictional trilogy centered around a Ring that ruled them all.
What is Lord of the rings?
Creations of the human mind protected by law, including inventions, literary and artistic works, designs, symbols, names, and images used in commerce.
What is Intellectual property?
The cryptographic mathematical process of transforming readable data (plaintext) into an unreadable scrambled format (ciphertext) that can only be unlocked with a secret decryption key.
What is Encryption?
The fundamental, smallest unit of digital information in computing, holding a single binary value of either 0 or 1.
What is a Bit?
Specialized software designed to help an end-user accomplish specific tasks or activities, distinct from the core operating system.
What is an Application/App?
The movie "Braveheart" was based on this person.
What is (Sir) William Wallace.
The intellectual and creative works that are either free of copyright restrictions (Public Domain) or shared under open licenses that permit free use and adaptation under specified conditions (Creative Commons).
What is Creative commons?
(Creative commons, Public domain, or common public domain/creative commons accepted.)
A specific category of malware that attaches its malicious code to a legitimate host program or file and replicates itself across a system or network when the host file is executed.
What is a Virus?
A base-2 numerical system that uses only two digits, 0 and 1, forming the universal electrical language underlying all digital computing and hardware circuits.
What is Binary?
The foundational system software that manages computer hardware resources (CPU, RAM, storage, peripherals), organizes file systems, and provides common background services for application software.
What is Operating Systems (OS)?
The artist who wrote the iconic song "Sweet Caroline".
What is Neil Diamond?
The unauthorized copying, downloading, distribution, or commercial use ofcopyrighted software programs.
What is Software Piracy?
Malicious software covertly installed on a system to track user activity, log keystrokes, intercept web browsing habits, and harvest sensitive personal data without the user's consent.
What is Spyware?
A standardized unit of digital storage made up of exactly 8 consecutive bits, representing a single text character, number, or symbol.
What is a Byte?
A specialized system utility program that enables the operating system and software applications to communicate and interact smoothly with specific connected hardware peripherals.
What is a Driver?
The national bird of Iceland.
What is a Gyrfalcon? {jer-faulken}