CS106 Quiz #1 Topics

  1. What laws protect your privacy? (video privacy protection act, fair credit reporting act, federal privacy act, electronic communications privacy act)
  2. What does it mean that you have a reasonable expectation of privacy?
  3. Database matching, data mining
  4. Cookies and the Internet
  5. Why is privacy important in ordinary situations (see article)
  6. Opt in, opt out
  7. Public key encryption is used for what three things? (encryption, digital signatures, verifying a document wasn't altered in transit)
  8. Strong encryption vs. weak encryption
  9. History of computers: Generations, Charles Babbage, Augusta Ada Byron, IBM PC was an open architecture vs. Apple's proprietary architecture.
  10. Significants of Jacquard's Loom