Big Idea 5

Your bank asks for your phone number to associate it with your account. What is this an example of?

• A privacy concern

• Multifactor authentication

• A phishing attempt

• Asymmetric authentication

Which of the following would be a good project for citizen scientists and why?

• Counting pine trees in urban conditions to get accurate data about the spread of the pine beetle.

• Identifying new stars using personal telescopes to keep costs lower for the tracking organization.

• Reading different-genre books and evaluating them so book publishers know which types of book manuscripts to accept and market.

• Counting fish in a lake to know if the fish are safe to consume.

You notice a file being uploaded every night to a site you are not familiar with. Opening the file, it looks like a file of your work from the day. This could be an example of a

• computer virus.

• keylogger file.

• network worm.

• phishing attack.

You are part of a team that created facial recognition software. However, you just learned an innocent person was taken into custody using only facial recognition software. What can the team do to remove any bias in the future?

• Create better training materials for interpreting the results.

• Use photos of a more diverse population to train the algorithm for recognition.

• Contact lawmakers to support regulation of the use of facial recognition software.

• Add new members to the team to increase the diversity to better identify and avoid bias.

An email goes out from your organization's payroll department to all employees stating that everyone needs to confirm or update their banking information to ensure paychecks are deposited on time. It turns out that this was not an email from the payroll department. Is it most likely a _______.

• computer virus

• keylogger attack

• phishing attack

• malware insertion point

You need to share a confidential file with another organization. You know the file needs to be encrypted to prevent unauthorized access to its contents. What is the best method of encryption to use?

• Certificate Authorities (CAs) to validate the security of the organization where you are sending data

• Multifactor authentication to ensure multiple steps of security

• Public key encryption so you don't have to share the encryption key

• Symmetric key encryption so you each have the encryption and decryption keys

What is a benefit of the government posting databases for public use?

• It is a way to identify the need for new policies and regulations.

• Consumers can learn more about how their individual data is being collected, stored, and used.

• Companies can opt out to prevent competitors form learning about their business.

• All businesses can access the data at no cost, aiding organizations that would otherwise not have the resources to obtain data on their own.

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Which of the following is the most likely potential impact on the economy due to widespread use of the app?

• People are less likely to eat overripe fruit, losing the health benefits and incurring higher medical costs.

• More food will go to waste if people do not purchase it based on the app results.

• As information spreads about which grocery chain has the freshest fruit, other chains will suffer as people move their shopping to the stores with fresher fruit. People could lose their jobs as a result.

• Medical costs will go down as people are eating more fruit.

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Which of the following is the most likely storage concern of the app?

• If fruit comparison data is stored in the cloud, you must have a strong enough signal to connect to the Internet for the app to work.

• There are so many different types of fruit, the app cannot store them all.

• Maintaining a record of the stores with the freshest fruits will take a lot of storage space, slowing down the app.

• Having to store data in the cloud and retrieving fruit ripeness values stored in the cloud will make the app too slow for most consumers.

Saving your information from an online form to be able to autofill fields in future forms captures some of your Personally Identifiable Information (PII). This could be an example of

• an ethical matter

• a legal problem

• a privacy concern

• a security issue