| Cookie | A text file that a server writes to a person's hard drive without his or her knowledge. The purpose is to track the individual's computer usage.
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| Copyright | The laws that protect people who own creative works such as music, art, text, software and other products of this nature.
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| Distance Education | Distance education refers to institutions or instructors delivering knowledge using telecommunication or remote capabilities.
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| Distance learning | When a student receives training from a remote teaching site via TV or computer.
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| Electronic whiteboard | A device that is connected to the teacher's computer that lets users see what the instructor writes and captures the information that is written into a computer file.
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| Filtering software | A program that tries to prevent the user from accessing adult material on the Internet.
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| FireWall | A security system that protects a network against threats from hackers from other networks.
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| Hacker | A computer expert; sometimes one who illegally accesses and tampers with computer programs and data.
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| Plagiarism | When someone takes the graphic representation, writings or ideas of another person and uses them as their own.
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| Spam | Unsolicited messages sent via the Internet.
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| Virus | A program that infects computer files by duplicating itself.
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| Worm | A program that can run by itself and replicate a full working version to other computers. After the worm is finished with its work, the data are usually corrupted and irretrievable.
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