Computer Crime
It's the weekend, you have nothing to do so you decide to play around on your computer. You turn it on and then start up, you start calling people with your modem, connecting to another world, with people just like you at a button press away. This is all fine but what happens when you start getting into other peoples computer files. Then it becomes a crime, but what is a computer crime really, obviously it involves the use of a computer but what are these crimes. Well they are: Hacking, Phreaking, & Software Piracy. To begin I will start with Hacking, what is hacking. Hacking is basically using your computer to "Hack" your way into another. They use programs called scanners which randomly dials numbers any generating tones or carriers are recorded. These numbers are looked at by hackers and then used again, when the hacker calls up the number and gets on he's presented with a logon prompt, this is where the hacking really begins, the hacker tries to bypass this anyway he knows how to and tries to gain access to the system. Why do they do it, well lets go to a book and see "Avid young computer hackers in their preteens and teens are frequently involved in computer crimes that take the form of trespassin
This allows the pesky virus to continue to spread while another program is running, until it is finished and passes back into the infected program. " (Yegulalp, 1997) That is one area where these packages differ most. This is where a majority of Hackers and Phreaks come, as well as those who continue to pirate software come to meet and share stories. Fortunately, help is available; antivirus software is available to anyone. It can cost a company thousands of dollars to restore the damage done. " Some problems with a personal computer cannot be stopped, but preventative action can take place for viruses. " (Yegulalp, 1997) TouchStone's PC-cillin 3. ")" The latter 2 ideas of what a phreak is, is rather weird. By purchasing a simple antivirus package, each computer user can hamper viruses from entering and destroying his personal computer. Quite often they are mearly out for a fun and games evening, and they get entangled in the illegal use of their machines without realizing the full import of what they are doing", I have a hard time believing that so lets see what a "hacker" has to say about what he does "Just as they were enthraled with their pursuit of information, so are we. "When the user runs a different program, the dormant virus begins to run again.
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