Chapter 6
1. What set of rules and conventions governs how computers exchange information over the network medium?
Answer: Protocols. A protocol describes the syntax, semantics, and synchronization of communication and may be implemented in hardware, software, or both.
2. Name some factors that motivate criminal activity.
Answer: Financial gain, anger or revenge, power, addiction, boredom, thrill-seeking, intellectual gain, recognition, sexual impulses, curiosity, and psychiatric illness.
3. As a Word document is written and changed, these changes are tracked and produce a type of evidence that is called what?
Answer: Metadata. Metadata includes hidden information that Microsoft Office programs add to a file to help people collaborate on writing ...
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