Cs 1030 week 1

What is the motivation for a directed hacker?

Anger, greed, politics.

What does a modification attack do?

Changes software and information

What features of transistors made them superior for computers compared to vacuum tubes?

Cheaper, smaller, cooler temperature, and lasted longer.

Computer security affects

Everyone

The term "hacker" originally had a negative connotation. T/F

F

In hardware the next step up from the transistor was the transmitter T/F

False

Name the four elements in Babbage's engine that components of todays computer?

Input device, memory, processing unit, and out device.

What is the motivation for a undirected hacker?

Technical challenhe

What important concept is attributed to Jon Von Neauman?

The stored program concept

IBM has some of its origins in what 1890 event?

US Census