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Under the Information Technology Act, 2000, a person who dishonestly or fraudulently tampers with computer source code that the law requires to be kept is liable. For a company's hardware and firmware, which statement correctly links technology and law?

Firmware held in ROM is a program forming part of a computer resource, which the IT Act defines broadly. Tampering with such stored programs can therefore attract liability, and the law does not exempt them merely because they reside in chip memory rather than on a disk.

  1. AFirmware stored in ROM is a computer resource, so tampering with programs stored in it can attract IT Act liabilityCorrect
  2. BFirmware is hardware only, so the IT Act cannot apply to it
  3. COnly software on a hard disk is covered, not programs in ROM
  4. DThe IT Act applies only to desktop computers, not embedded devices

Explanation

The Act defines computer resource widely to include computer, system, software and data; firmware in ROM is a program within a computer resource. Hence tampering is not outside the Act merely because it sits in chip memory.

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