1. Rory is concerned that the employees in her division are wasting too much time on personal matters. She would like to monitor them. Which of the following activities is she not allowed to do?
A. Ask key employees to forward to her any e-mails they receive from their colleagues that contain jokes or other silly content
B. Read all messages sent to employee pagers
C. Read all employee e-mails sent through the office system
D. Read employees’ private e-mail accounts
E. Read all e-mails sent in the ordinary course of business

2. Three terrorists are plotting to blow up a high-rise office building, which could lead to thousands of deaths. The police capture their computers and read the files before obtaining a warrant. Which of the following searches would be illegal?
I. Marshall has written elaborate plans, which are stored on the hard drive of his laptop.
II. Winston has violated school policies by downloading plans for bombs from the Internet through his school’s network.
III. Montgomery has made rental car reservations over the Internet in a cyber-cafe.
A. I, II, and III
B. Neither I, II, nor III
C. Just I
D. Just II
E. Just III

3. The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act prohibits all of the following activities except:
A. Theft of financial information
B. Illegal file sharing over the Internet
C. Theft of information from the U.S. government
D. Negligent damage to a computer
E. Computer extortion


4. Under the Can-Spam Act, it is legal to:
A. Send out advertisements for sexually explicit
Web sites
B. Send e-mails with false return addresses
C. Send e-mails with fake headers
D. Refuse to unsubscribe recipients
E. Send out e-mails with headers that, while technically accurate, are in fact misleading

5. Your novel has just been published and is now for sale on Amazon.com. You access Amazon via Earth-link one day and are horrified to see that a reader (or alleged reader) has posted a bad review that is not only totally unfair but also totally inaccurate. (You did not plagiarize portions of the book!) Which of the following would be liable to you:
I. Amazon.com
II. Earth-link
III. The person who wrote the review
A. I, II, and III
B. Neither I, II, nor III
C. I and III
D. Just I
E. Just III