Critical Thinking Questions Case 11-2 in Your Introductory Course on Computers

question 59

Multiple Choice

Critical Thinking Questions Case 11-2 In your introductory course on computers, your professor has decided to dedicate a lecture to computer ethics. There is a lot of ambiguity in this topic, and she has presented a range of circumstances for you and your classmates to review. Which of the following is NOT a question of computer ethics?

• A) Users are required to provide a software product's 25-character identification number before installing software.
• B) A student copies text from the Web and uses it in a research paper for his English class.
• C) A student who has been expelled from school installs a computer virus on a computer in the student lab.
• D) Someone copies The DaVinci Code to the Web and encourages others to read it.

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