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Ethics and Responsible Use Terms

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Plagiarism   The act of copying someone else's work and publishing it as your own. This includes text, media, and even ideas.  
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Copyright   The legal means of protecting an author's work. It is a type of intellectual property that provides exclusive publication, distribution, and usage rights for the author.  
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Piracy   Committed by simply downloading or copying a program that a user has not paid for.  
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Public Domain   A range of abstract materials which are not owned or controlled by anyone. These materials are "public property" and available for any purpose to anyone.  
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Cybercrime   A criminal activity done using computers and the Internet.  
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Hacker   Someone who can gain unauthorized access to other computers.  
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Virus   Small programs or scripts that can negatively affect the health of your computer.  
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Worm   A type of virus that replicates itself, but does not alter any files on your machine. This virus can multiply so many times that it takes up all available memory space.  
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Trojan Horse   Software programs that masquerade as regular programs, such as games, disk utilities, and even antivirus programs. If they run, they can destroy your machine.  
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Antivirus   Software is a type of utility used for scanning and removing viruses from your computer.  
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Back Door   A means of disabling a system's security which is deliberately left by designers of the system, often to give access to service technicians or maintenance programmers.  
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Spoofing   Tricking or deceiving computer systems or other computer users. Typically done by hiding one's identity or faking the identity of another user on the Internet.  
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Firewall   Limits the data than can pass through it and protects a networked server or client machine from damage by unauthorized users.  
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Encryption   Coding or scrambling of information so that it can only be decoded and read by someone who had the correct decoding key.  
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Spyware   Captures information like Web browsing habits, e-mail messages, usernames and passwords, and credit card information.  
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Spam   Refers to junk e-mail or irrelevant postings to a newsgroup or bulletin board.  
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Identity Theft   Refers to fraud that involves stealing money or getting other benefits by pretending to be someone else.  
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Cookies   Data sent to your computer by a Web server that records your actions on a certain Web site.  
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Adware   Free software that is supported by advertisements.  
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Phishing   The act of stealing your personal information. Emails are sent out that appear legitimate from such sites as E-Bay, PayPal, or banking institutions.  
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License Agreement   A legal statement which indicates the terms under which a user may make use of a software product.  
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Backup   A copy of one or more files created as an alternate in case the original data is lost or becomes unusable.  
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Restore   Means to return something to its former condition.  
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Computer Ethics   A set of moral principles that regulate the use of computers.  
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Computer Forensics   The application of scientifically proven methods to gather, process, interpret, and use digital evidence to provide a description of cyber crime activities.  
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