Problems 46–50 are multiple-choice questions designed to get you to begin thinking about computer use and abuse.

One example of computer abuse is categorized as assuming that computers are largely incomprehensible. Which of the following situations would indicate this abuse?

A. A secretary refuses promotion because he will have to interact with the company’s computer.

B. A clerk inputs the wrong information into the computer to defraud the company.

C. A student changes the grade of a classmate.

D. A hacker (computer hobbyist) copies a copyrighted program for three of her friends.

E. A credit card customer wants to receive his bill on the 25th of the month instead of on the 10th, but when he calls to have it changed he is told that there is nothing that can be done since that is the way the computer was programmed.