A pen register is a device or process that traces outgoing signals from a specific phone or computer to their destination; it is often used by law enforcement as the advanced counterpart of an outgoing call log. A pen register produces a list of the phone numbers or IP addresses contacted, but does not include substantive information transmitted by the signals.
Screen scraping is a technique used to extract data from websites or other web applications. Screen scraping software automates navigating a user interface, interacting with its content, and extracting data from the website’s HTML or other data displayed on the screen. Screen scraping is technically legal; although the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act prohibits people from accessing a computer by circumventing the typical protective measures, (username/password) the Ninth Circuit ruled in
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is a primary internet protocol that enables the transmission of data between different devices on the same network. TCP is designed to ensure the safe delivery of messages over internet networks. Additionally, TCP recovers lost messages and resolves corrupted internet files. TCP is defined by the standards of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the internet’s top standards development organization.
A trap and trace device is a device or process that records the sources of incoming signals to a specific phone or computer. This is often used by law enforcement as the advanced counterpart of Caller ID. A trap and trace device identifies the phone numbers or Internet addresses of incoming signals, but does not include substantive information transmitted by those signals.
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A Uniform Resource Locator, or URL is the address of a specific location on the web. As explained by the Computer Security Resource Center, a URL is a reference to a web resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it.
The World Wide Web (WWW), often known as WWW, W3, or the Web, is the most widely used software platform on the globe. Tim Berners-Lee proposed the architecture of what became the World Wide Web. It is an information-based environment where users may access documents and other resources through the Internet using a web browser, allowing users to search for information by going from one page to the next.
