APCSP Big Idea 5 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. Small files stored on a users device that track browsing activity and preferences across visits to a website.
  2. 3. Presenting someone elses work as your own without permission or credit.
  3. 5. A type of malware that can copy itself and spread to other programs or computers, often causing damage.
  4. 7. A method for verifying that a user is who they claim to be before granting access to a system or information.
  5. 11. A set of public copyright licenses that let creators allow others to share, use, or build on their work under specified conditions.
  6. 13. Research or other content made freely available online without copyright or licensing restrictions on use.
  7. 15. A technique that attempts to trick a user into providing personal information, which can then be used to access sensitive online resources, such as bank accounts and emails.
  8. 16. Differing access to computing devices and the Internet based on socioeconomic, geographic, or demographic factors.
  9. 17. A process that reverses encryption, taking a secret message and reproducing the original plain text.
  10. 18. Software intended to damage a computing system or to take partial control over its operation.
  11. 19. The practice of obtaining input or information from a large number of people via the Internet.
  12. 20. A system that requires at least two steps to unlock protected information; each step adds a new layer of security that must be broken to gain unauthorized access.
  13. 22. A creative work or invention that legally belongs to its creator or an organization, which may be protected by copyright, patent, or trademark.
  14. 23. A process of encoding messages to keep them secret, so only authorized parties can read it.
  15. 24. Systematic errors or unfairness in a computing innovation, often stemming from biased data or algorithm design, that can produce unfair outcomes for certain groups.
  16. 25. Scientific research carried out in whole or in part by members of the public who contribute data using their own computing devices.
  17. 26. An encryption method that uses a public key to encrypt a message and a different, private key to decrypt it.
Down
  1. 1. The use of a program to record every keystroke made by a computer user in order to gain fraudulent access to passwords and other confidential information.
  2. 2. An organization trusted to issue digital certificates that verify the ownership of encryption keys.
  3. 4. A wireless access point that gives unauthorized access to secure networks.
  4. 6. A computing technique in which systems improve at a task by learning patterns from data rather than being explicitly programmed for every case.
  5. 8. An encryption method that uses the same key for both encrypting and decrypting a message.
  6. 9. Analyzing large data sets to find patterns, trends, or relationships that might not otherwise be obvious.
  7. 10. Information about a person that can be used, on its own or with other information, to identify that specific individual, such as their age, address, or Social Security number.
  8. 12. A legal protection giving the creator of an original work exclusive rights to reproduce, distribute, and display it.
  9. 14. A credential, issued by a certificate authority, that verifies the identity behind an encryption key used in secure communication.
  10. 21. Software whose source code is freely available for anyone to view, use, and modify.