TERMS Flashcards
electronic monitoring of a target’s online accounts and activities. Harassing cyberstalking can escalate beyond mere monitoring to include threats, slander, and identity theft.
Cyberstalking
lends itself to mob formation. Often, all it can take is a single public post expressing an unpopular position, and the power of tens of thousands of users can be brought to bear with the goal of making life miserable for the post’s author.
Cybermobbing
But making such information easily available on popular social media sites with the intention of causing the target harm is wrong—and, in some jurisdictions, also a crime.
Doxxing
any information that relates to your health, employment, banking activities, close relationships, and interactions with government agencies. In most cases, you should have the legal right to expect that such information remains inaccessible to anyone without your permission.
Personal Data
tools for communicating across public, insecure networks without disclosing your identifying information.
VPN
unsolicited email messages sent with the goal of getting you to respond, usually by purchasing a product of doubtful value.
spam
misrepresents the origin and sender of the email.
spoofing
interact with a web resource that’s made to look like an actual legitimate site.
phishing
Falsely and illegally directing law enforcement authorities toward a nonexistent crime
swatting