Big Data, Privacy Study Guide

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the individual’s right to keep certain information private; about informational self-determinism
Data Privacy
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is a tool to build privacy; technology allows an individual’s decision to protect his/her privacy to be enforced
Data Security
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PGP stands for...
Pretty Good Privacy
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is an encryption tool developed for encrypting messages; The software it uses is free and open for anyone to use
PGP
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Who developed PGP?
Philip Zimmerman
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What happened when PGP was released to the public for free use?
The U.S. government filed a lawsuit against Zimmerman
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How does PGP work?
It uses a public key that’s given to anyone who wants to receive a message and a private key that you use to decrypt that message.
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A type of encryption that uses two keys, one public and one private, to encrypt and decrypt a message.
Public Key Encryption
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How many keys are used in public key encryption?
2
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What's given to the other computer to encrypt a message?
public key
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What's used to decrypt a message?
The receiving party's private key
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Symmetric Encryption is also known as...
symmetric cryptography or secret key encryption
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is a cryptographic protocol where two or more users share a single secret key to encrypt and decrypt communications
Symmetric Encryption
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How many keys are used in symmetric encryption?
1
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the transformation of data in order to hide its information
Cryptography
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is any method on encrypting text
Cipher
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a cipher technique in which every letter is substituted for the letter that comes four positions after it
Caesar’s Cipher
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A digital code that verifies the user through public key encryption
Digital Signature
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the process of assigning geographic location metadata to a photos’ EXIFdata, which normally would only contain details about the camera being used to take the photo
Geotagging
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RSS stands for...
Really Simple Syndication
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is used to describe the de facto standard for the syndication of Web content; an XML-based format that’s used in different ways for content distribution
working RSS document
RSS Feed
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the idea that online service providers were safe from secondary infringement allegations if it was capable of substantial noninfringing uses
Online Service Provider Safe Harbors
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is the use of the Internet or other electronic means to stalk or harass an individual, group, or organization
Cyberstalking
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is an international non-profit organization that publishes news leaks and classified media provided by anonymous sources.
Wikileaks
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a slang term used to describe online harassment and is difficult to track as the person responsible for the acts of cyberbullying can remain anonymous when threatening others online
Cyber Bullying
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a type of biological characteristic that’s used to identify an individual
Biometric Identifier
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a network of private computers infected with malicious software and controlled as a group without the owners' knowledge; bot that runs on an IRC network that’s made through a trojan
Botnet
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IRC stands for...
Internet Relay Chat
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is a chat system developed by Jarkko Oikarinen in Finland in the late 1980s that allow for any Internet connected person to join in on a live discussion
IRC
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Who developed IRC?
Jarkko Oikarinen
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When and where was the IRC developed?
Finland in the late 1980s
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DDoS stands for...
Distributed Denial of Service
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is a cyber-attack from multiple systems on a server, service, website, or network, flooding it with Internet traffic
DDoS
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a type of malicious software designed to block access to a computer system until a sum of money is paid.
Ransomware
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when someone fishes or baits you into giving them information
Phishing
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What is the difference between data, information, and knowledge?
Data is the simplest and most raw form of information while information is dat after it's been organized and processed. Knowledge is what's inferred from information.
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What is meant by "right to be forgotten" as it refers to the Internet?
The idea that personal information can be purposefully removed or taken out from a place on the Internet
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Who is Edward Snowden? What is his “claim to fame''?
Edward Snowden revealed that the United States had a massive surveillance tool that not only watched over and collected data from suspicious individuals, but American citizens.
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Compare the terms privacy and security in regards to data.
Privacy is the individual’s right to keep certain information or data private while security is the tool in which that data privacy is protected.
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a hacker that hacks into a system with the permission of the user to test security boundaries;
white hat hacker
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A white hat hacker is also known as...
ethical security hacker
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a hacker that may violate laws or ethical standards but aren’t known to be as malicious as black hat hackers
gray hat hacker
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are hackers that violate laws and ethical standards, often with malicious intent
Black hat hackers
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Explain how Public Key Encryption works?
The public key is given by your computer to the computer that wants to communicate and uses that key as well its own private key to decrypt it
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What is the difference between integrity and authenticity as they refer to digital messaging? (BTB)
If a digital message has integrity, it wasn’t tampered with during transmission. If a digital message is authentic, it was sent from the intended sender to its intended recipient.
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What does FALSE mean in VLOOKUP?
Exact match
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What does TRUE mean in VLOOKUP?
Approximate match
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Is TRUE or FALSE the default option for VLOOKUP?
TRUE
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uses only one key, less secure than public key encryption
private key encryption
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A reverse order of user responses means...
the latest response is at the top of the list
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A regular order of user responses means...
the latest response is at the bottom of the list
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