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CTI-Unit 3 II
Second half of Unit 3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Identity Theft | A crime of obtaining someone else's personal data and using it for financial gain or to defraud or deceive. |
| Internet | The largest network used as a communication tool. |
| Intranet | A network designed for the exclusive use of computer users within an organization that cannot be accessed by users outside the organization. |
| Keywords | Words that describe the information the user is trying to locate. |
| Navigation | The ability to move through a Webpage. |
| Netiquette | Used to describe rules for proper online behavior. |
| Newsgroup | Discussion forum or a type of bulletin board. |
| Plagiarism | Claiming someone else's words or work as your own. |
| Public Domain | Information or content to which copyright protectio9n does not apply and that is available for anyone to copy. |
| Router | A device that directs LAN traffic on a network by diving |
| Search Engine | Software program used to Search the Internet through the use of keywords. |
| Server | A Computer that handles requests for data, e-mail, file transfer |
| Software Piracy | The Illegal copying or use of computer programs. |
| Spam | Unsolicited commercial e-mail that is sent to many people at the same time to promote products or services; also called "junk" e-mail. |
| Spider | A program that searches the Web; called a spider because it crawls all over the Web learning anything new. |
| Uniform Resource Locator (URL) | An address that tells the browser where to locate the page; it is typed into the address bar. |
| Virtual Reality | An artificial environment Used in education, medicine, training, research, and other fields. |
| Voice Recognition | Input devices that are used to issue spoken or voice commands to the computer. |
| Web Server | Computer that houses and delivers Webpages. |
| Wildcard Character | The asterisk (*) symbol; used to search for words that the user is not sure how to spell or for word variations. |
| Worm | A computer virus that makes many copies of itself, resulting in the consumption of system resources that slows down or actually halts tasks. |