Cyber-Ethics Terminology
A branch of morals and principles concerning behavior within an online environment.
Ethics
a type of computer storage containing non-volatile, permanent data that, normally, can only be read, not written to.
Read-Only Memory (ROM)
small files of information that a web server generates and sends to a web browser.
Cookies
A computer's main component that acts as its "control unit".
Central Processing Unit (CPU)
a process which involves loading an operating system onto a computer’s RAM or hard disk.
Booting
Law which permits limited use of copyrighted material without permission under some circumstances.
Fair Use Doctrine
stored remotely in logical pools and is accessible to users over the internet.
Cloud Storage
foundation of the world wide web, used to load webpages using hypertext links.
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
a storage device containing nonvolatile flash memory, used in place of a hard disk because of its much greater speed.
Solid-State Drive (SSD)
a type of computer program that is designed to run a computer's hardware and application programs.
System Software
the gulf between those who have ready access to computers and the internet, and those who do not.
Digital Divide
a computer component that stores and retrieves digital data.
Hard Drive
an electronic document used to prove the validity of a public key.
Digital Certificate
an electronic communications network that connects computer networks around the world.
Internet
an underlying computer system (hardware and software) on which application programs can run.
Platform
the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.
Plaigirism
a storage device containing nonvolatile flash memory, used in place of a hard disk because of its much greater speed.
Solid-State Drive (SSD)
an address identifying where documents can be found on the internet.
Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
a computer component that stores and retrieves digital data.
Hard Drive
runs on a server in a client-server architecture and provides multiple services to client machines within the network.
Server Operating System (OS)
legal rights that allow individuals to access, create, and publish digital media or use for electronic devices.
Digital Rights
computer's short-term memory that stores data that the processor needs to run applications and open files.
Random Access Memory (RAM)
Hyper Text Markup Language
HTML
holds and allows communication between many of the crucial electronic components of a system, such as the central processing unit and memory.
Motherboard
a software-based computer that behaves like a physical computer.
Virtual Machine