Question

read the excerpt from the code book. alternatively, imagine that a bank receives an e - mail from a client, which instructs that all the clients funds should be transferred to a private numbered bank account in the cayman islands. once again, without a handwritten signature, how does the bank know that the e - mail is really from the client? the e - mail could have been written by a criminal attempting to divert the money to his own cayman islands bank account. in order to develop trust on the internet, it is essential that there is some form of reliable digital signature. how does the author support the claim that it is essential that there is some form of reliable digital signature? by relating a personal story about how his digital signature was stolen by offering facts about the signatures banks use to prevent stolen accounts by sharing statistics about stolen money that was sent to the cayman islands by describing an example of how money could be stolen and sent abroad

Explanation:

• Option A: The excerpt doesn't include a personal story about the author's digital signature being stolen, so A is incorrect.
• Option B: The excerpt doesn't offer facts about the signatures banks use to prevent stolen accounts; it focuses on a hypothetical scenario, so B is incorrect.
• Option C: There are no statistics about stolen money sent to the Cayman Islands provided, so C is incorrect.
• Option D: The author describes a hypothetical example of a criminal attempting to steal money by sending a fraudulent email to a bank to transfer funds to a Cayman Islands account, which supports the claim that a reliable digital signature is essential to prevent such theft.

Answer:

D. by describing an example of how money could be stolen and sent abroad