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Within the US, this act made it a crime to knowingly access computers without authorization, obtain unauthorized information with intent to defraud, or cause damage to protected computers.?

A) The Law Commission
B) The Serious Crime Act
C) Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
D) Computer Misuse Act

E) All of the above
F) C) and D)

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Question 2

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An early medical/pathological explanation for hacker behaviors was called _______________.?

A) Computer Obsession Complex
B) Internet Addiction Disorder
C) Hacker Drive Syndrome
D) Computer Addiction Disorder

E) A) and D)
F) B) and C)

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Question 3

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Studies in hacking reveal it to be an overwhelmingly _______________.?

Many scholars agree that the social base of the hacker movement is heavily skewed towards _______________.?

According to Reagle, hacker culture is characterized by a _______________ which makes hackers and related technologists blind to the barriers facing women in entering and navigating hacking and other tech-related cultures.?

_______________ is a program which helps identify vulnerabilities in systems and allows users to craft "payloads" to exploit these vulnerabilities.?

The first major motion picture to feature hackers, released in 1983, was entitled _______________.?

This type of computer intrusion is the stealing or copying of information, such as theft of software, business secrets, and personal information.?

Which of the following is NOT an explanation for gender disparities in hacker culture given by Taylor?

Within the literature, hacker criminality has been linked to all of these psychological factors except _______________.?

In the 1960s, hacking was generally viewed as _______________.?

_______________ is the author of the 1986 work "The Conscience of a Hacker" also known as "The Hacker's Manifesto."?

In 1988, Gold and Schifreen hacked into Prince Philip's _______________.?

Constructing and viewing the hacker as an "archetypal 'cybercriminal'" is an example of what Becker (1963) would identify as the _______________.?

In attempts to estimate interest in hacking, what is the example the book provides as an indicator?

This type of computer intrusion is the altering of contents of a website or creating a 'fake' website.?

_______________ coined the term "the hacker ethic" in his book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution.?

This type of computer intrusion prevents a user or owner the access to services available on their system.?