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_______________ is something that can 'increase the striking potential of a unit without increasing its personnel.'?

A) force amplifier
B) force multiplier
C) tactical manuever
D) kinetic amplifier

E) B) and D)
F) B) and C)

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Terrorist groups make use of the internet in support of their conventional, terrestrially based activities. Which of the following is one of the ways the textbook describes the internet being used to facilitate terrorist activities?

A) Communication and coordination
B) Propaganda, publicity and recruitment
C) Information gathering
D) All of the above
E) None of the above

F) All of the above
G) None of the above

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This act considerably strengthened penalties under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986, including the provision for the life imprisonment of convicted 'cyberterrorists'.?

This form of hacktivism is the cyber-equivalent to the traditional protest method by which a particular site, associated with opposing or oppressive political interests, is physically occupied by activists.?

This form of hacktivism involves exposing collections of private information on an individual, often with the goal of shaming, silencing, or coercing the person.?

Some argue that the media and political figures attempt to generate public concern about cybercrime in order to secure sectional interests. Becker (1963) would label this behaviour as _______________.?

Which individual leaked the video now titled "Collateral Murder" that showed a US Apache helicopter gunning down Iraqi civilians and two Reuters journalists?

A term commonly used to describe hacking for the purposes of political activism and protest is _______________.?

This process allows communications to be encoded prior to transmission so that they will be unreadable if intercepted.?

In the wake of 9/11, the Bush administration created this federal agency to bolster the protection of critical information infrastructure.?

_______________ was a "digital weapon" deployed to sabotage Iranian nuclear enrichment efforts.?

_______________ was a hacker from Kosovo who compromised a retail company's system and obtained the names, passwords, email address, and other data of hundreds of thousands of people. He then combed through that data and leaked the information associated with over a thousand military and government employees to the Islamic State.?

In 2010, Anonymous launched a DDoS campaign against various credit card and payment processing companies like Visa, PayPal, and Mastercard. This campaign was launched in retaliation for these companies cutting off donations to which organization?

All of these components are involved in the definition of cyberterrorism except that _________________.?

Which hacker most likely coined the term "hacktivism"?

Which one of the following is not classified as part of a nation's critical information infrastructure?

According to Rid, the term "cyberwarfare" should may actually reduce the violence involved in other forms of warfare because it involves significant changes and advances in _______________.?

_______________ is an "infrastructure or asset the incapacitation or destruction of which would have a debilitating impact on the national security or economic or social welfare of a nation."?

_______________ works by hiding data within the digital code used to construct images.?

This form of hacktivism attempts to ruin and alter online sites as a form of protest.?