1. Active Badge - A microprocessor-controlled ID badge that broadcasts infrared identification codes to a network receiver that updates a badge-location database.
Antivirus - A program designed to search for virus, alert the users, and destroy the virus
Backup - The process of saving data- especially for data recovery
Biometrics - Measurements of individual body characteristics
Encryption - A secret numerical code that can be used to scramble network transmission
Firewall - A tool used to keep internal networks secure while enabling communication with the rest of the Internet
Hacking - Electronic trespassing and vandalism
Mal-ware - Malicious software, especially destructive programs such as the viruses, worms, and Trojan horses devised and spread by computer saboteurs.
Spyware - Technology that collects information from computer users without their knowledge or consent.
Virus - Software that spreads from program to program, or from disk to disk, and uses each infected program or disk to make copies of itself.
7. - Computers do exactly what they are programmed to do, and if some one knows how to bypass the protections made by these programs than there is no security in a computer.
- Computers can't decide who to give access to and who not to give access if two people have a password.
9. Because a tape cannot be hacked through a network. This way if their system failed they would have a back-up that would definitely work.
10. Smart weapons are missiles that use computerized guidance systems to locate their targets. They are different from conventional weapons because they do not require direct input from humans to be launched.
Advantage - Can be used to exactly pinpoint enemy locations so that there wouldn't be any missing.
Risk - There is a smaller amount of decision time which increases errors.
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