Computer Crimonology

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is open, but they give no second thought to opening the doors to computer systems. Not only is this a violation of privacy, but it is also a threat to the victim’s financial, medical, personal and other property. Viruses have caused an enormous amount of economic and productivity loss. Some experts in the computer crime and hacking field suggest that hackers have an ethic which has very little to do with ethics. Unlike the early ethical code of ideals reviewed earlier, today’s hacker ethic is arrogant and regards hacking as the natural right of those who choose to pursue the activity, “Many hackers argue that they follow an ethic that both guides their behavior and justifies their break-ins. This hacker ethic states, in part, that all information should be free. This view holds that information belongs to everyone, and there should be no boundaries or restraints to prevent anyone from examining information. If information is free, it logically follows that there should be no such thing as intellectual property, and no need for security” (Denning et al., 1998, p. 496). Hacking and hackers continue to represent a major challenge to law enforcement officials whose job it is to combat computer crime. Lax legislation regardi
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Approximate Word count = 9875
Approximate Pages = 40 (250 words per page)