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| An entity that plays a role in international affairs but does not represent any state or nation. |
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| Acts of terrorism that take place within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States without direct foreign involvement |
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| Antiterrorism and the Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) |
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| ) Legislation giving federal law enforcement officers the power to arrest and prosecute any individual who provides “material support or resources” to a “foreign terrorist organization.” |
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| Legislation passed in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that greatly expanded the ability of government agents to monitor and apprehend suspected terrorists. |
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| The services and facilities that support the daily needs of modern life such as electricity, food, transportation, and water |
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| An agency that is primarily concerned with gathering information of potential criminal or terrorist events in order to prevent crimes from taking place |
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| Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) |
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| The U.S. government agency that is responsible for collecting and coordinating foreign intelligence operations |
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| National Security Agency (NSA) |
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| The intelligence agency that is responsible for protecting U.S. government communications and producing intelligence by monitoring foreign communications. |
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| An umbrella term for the actions taken by governments to prepare for large-scale catastrophic events such as terrorist attacks or environmental disasters. |
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| Those individuals, such as firefighters, police officers, and emergency medical technicians, who are responsible for the protection and preservation of life and property during the early stages following a disaster. |
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| ) Official authorization allowing a person to travel to and within the issuing country. |
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| Any wrongful act that is directed against computers and computer parts or that involves wrongful use or abuse of computers or software. |
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| A crime that occurs online, in the virtual community of the Internet, as opposed to in the physical world |
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| Any misrepresentation knowingly made over the Internet with the intention of deceiving another and on which a reasonable person would and does rely to his or her detriment. |
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| The theft of personal information, such as a person’s name, driver’s license number, or Social Security number |
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| The crime of stalking, committed in cyberspace through the use of the Internet, e-mail, or another form of electronic communication |
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| Willful and repeated emotional harm inflicted through the use of electronic devices such as computers and cell phones |
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| A person who uses one computer to break into another |
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| A network of computers that have been appropriated without the knowledge of their owners and used to spread harmful programs via the Internet; short for robot network |
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| A computer program that can automatically replicate itself over a network such as the Internet and interfere with the normal use of a computer. A worm does not need to be attached to an existing file to move from one network to another |
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| A computer program that can replicate itself over a network such as the Internet and interfere with the normal use of a computer. A virus cannot exist as a separate entity and must attach itself to another program to move through a network. |
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| Bulk e-mails, particularly of a commercial advertising, sent in large quantities without the consent of the recipient |
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| Property resulting from intellectual, creative processes |
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| The application of computer technology to finding and utilizing evidence of cyber crimes |
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| Information or data of value to a criminal investigation that is either stored or transmitted by electronic means. |
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| The process by which a message is transmitted into a form or code that the sender and receiver intend not to be understandable by third parties. |
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