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  • Type Of Computer Criminal
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    Psychological Profiling of Computer Crime The psychological analysis of computer criminals is a start for preventing further computer crime related activity. Learning to identify personal characteristics of hackers will help to measure the threat they " ll have on a computers security software. There are many classifications which hackers fit into that define their capabilities. With this data computer security experts will know how and where to apply the most effective type of firewall. The mai...
  • Allow Hackers
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    ANOTHER HOLE IN THE WALL Opinion: This was a very interesting article because it seems that everybody That owns a computer has the fear of hackers and viruses. It's a big issue Because people are being attacked and it seems that there is no way out. Many programmers have tried to come up with a game plan so that you can't Allow hackers to break in your computer. Some ideas have risen but none really Seem to totally block the hackers from breaking in your computer. The reason that Your computer c...
  • Phone Call To The Hacker
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    The Cuckoo's Egg: Cliff's Persistence By Clifford Stoll " The Cuckoo's Egg' is a story of persistence, love for one's work and is just plain funny! The story starts out with Clifford Stoll being 'recycled' to a computer analyst / webmaster. Cliff, as he is affectionately called, is a long-haired ex-hippie that works at Lawrence Berkeley Lab. He originally was an astronomer, but since his grant wore out, he became a mainframe master. He was glad that instead of throwing him out into the unemploym...
  • Damage Computers
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    A. What is hacking? Hacking is the act of penetrating computer systems to gain knowledge about the system and how it works. Hacking is illegal because we demand free access to ALL data, and we get it. This pisses people off and we are outcaste d from society, and in order to stay out of prison, we must keep our status of being a hacker / a secret. We can't discuss our findings with anyone but other members of the hacking / phreaking community for fear of being punished. We are punished for wanti...
  • Security Systems On Remote Computers
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    The Art of War and E-Commerce How Secure are our Secured Transmissions Sun-Tzu Wu is the reputed author of the Chinese classic Ping-fa (The Art of War), written approximately 475-221 B.C. Penned at a time when China was divided into six or seven states that often resorted to war with each other in their struggles for supremacy, it is a systematic guide to strategy and tactics for rulers and commanders. In doing business on the Internet during this time of rampant computer viruses and hacker atta...
  • Computer Crime By Technology
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    Billions of dollars in losses have already been discovered. Billions more have gone undetected. Trillions will be stolen, most without detection, by the emerging master criminal of the twenty-first century-the computer crime offender. Worst of all, anyone who is computer literate can become a computer criminal. He or she is everyman, every woman, or even every child. The crime itself will often be virtual in nature-sometimes recorded, more often not-occurring only on the Internet, with the only ...
  • Cliff's Views Toward Government Agencies
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    A Book report on "The Cuckoo's Egg" by Cliff Stoll Cuckoo's Fledgling Although the 1980's are not generally thought of as a decade of innocence, there were, however, a few pockets of juvenile utopia. One such example was the rapidly expanding "online" community, with its assortment of up-and-coming networks that were, to many technically inclined users, a virtual "McDonald's Play Place" with slides, ball pits and winding tubes to explore, all rapped in a security blanket of innocence. Not until ...
  • Computer Hackers
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    What is the definition of the term "hacker?" Is it someone that terrorizes companies by shutting down computers and satellites otherwise rendering them helpless? Or is it merely someone that is curious as to how technology works? The United States Government doesn't agree at all with the latter of the two. It is almost frightful that the Government of the United States, the most powerful force in the world, can be so discriminative. You think that they would be the ones with some sort of underst...
  • Hacker Crackdown By Bruce Sterling
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    The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier by Bruce Sterling is a book that focuses on the events that occurred on and led up to the AT&T long-distance telephone switching system crashing on January 15, 1990. Not only was this event rare and unheard of it took place in a time when few people knew what was exactly going on and how to fix the problem. There were a lot of controversies about the events that led up to this event and the events that followed because not only di...
  • Hacker Calls Up The Number
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    Computer Crimes 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: H...
  • Hack A Computer Server
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    Creative Writing: The Big Scoop Hello, my name is Jack Williams. I am a reporter you have been hearing a lot about and this is how I gathered my information for my article on 'Computers, Hacking, And USA's Citizens' that has been causing so much uproar in many states and even in the government. Recently, people have claimed that I fantasized everything in the report and that I should work in the fiction field in stead of journalism, so here is the exact way I received my information for my story...
  • Computer Crime
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    Jones Telecommunications & Crime on the Internet Overview If cyberspace is a type of community, a giant neighborhood made up of networked computer users around the world, then it seems natural that many elements of a traditional society can be found taking shape as bits and bytes. With electronic commerce comes electronic merchants, plugged-in educators provide networked education, and doctors meet with patients in offices on-line. It should come as no surprise that there are also cybercriminals...
  • Price Of Disc Programs
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    Computer Crime: The Crime of the Future English II 6 April 1996 Explosive growth in the computer industry over the last decade has made new technologies cheaper and simpler for the average person to own. As a result, computers play an intricate part in our daily lives. The areas in which computers affect life are infinite, ranging from entertainment to finances. If anything were to happen to these precious devices, the world would be chaotic. There is a type of person that thrives on chaos, that...
  • Computer Hackers
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    Computer Crimes on the Internet Thesis: Emerging with the Internet, a group of elite cyder-surfers have turned into today " is computer hackers. Software piracy is a major crime on the Net. $7.5 billion of American Software is stolen each year. Industrial Espionage is gaining access to remote sites illegally. Stealing of information from corporate sites is extremely illegal. Password Sniffers are used to get someone " is password. IP spoof ers changes your identity. Many things can be stolen fro...
  • Attacks On Government Computers
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    Hacking The Technology Age, and the Downfall of the U.S. In today's society, people are always trying to improve technology, but in doing so, are they creating something that can be used to create mass destruction for the United States Everyday computers get faster, new programs are written, or some scientist finds a way to make a job be done quicker. For most people, they welcome the advancement of science to ease their lives, but it is known that technology can also be used to create havoc, an...
  • Most Computer Crime
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    The technological revolution has taken full swing. If a business doesn't have some form of e-commerce, or if a person does not have some form of an e-mail address, they are seen as living in the stone age. This new world of virtual life, where with the click of a button a person can travel millions of miles in a few seconds, millions of new opportunities have arisen. However, someone has to always ruin the good things in life. Very similar to Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter", where the second th...
  • Companies Place Cookies In Our System
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    Social and Moral Issues in the Computer Age With today's modern, high-tech society, morals and values are being questioned daily with new technology. Employers now have ways to monitor employees' activities, both at home and at the office. Internet companies have the right to place "cookies" in your computer, which constantly transmits info about your computer to the company. Hackers can break into your system and extract credit card numbers, social security, bank accounts and other personal, vi...
  • Effect Of Hacker Attacks
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    Hacking Describe a negative aspect of ICT's impact on the information society. Describe how ICT has brought this about and what society is has done in response to it. Abstract Hacking has been and still disease different societies suffer from. The essay aims to provide the reader with knowledge regarding the effects hacking caused to our society, and how the society responded and tried to solve or minimize those effects. Different issues regarding hacking are discussed, such as the motivations t...
  • Hospital With Excellent Computer Security
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    Composition II Position Paper Final Draft Hackers cost governments, corporations, and even normal people billions of dollars per year. You might ask, sure, there are those out there for profit, but what about the college student who was just doing it for fun? Profit or fun, it's still theft. In some cases theft of money, in others, theft of information. Just because a person uses a computer should not impact the severity of their punishment. A murderer's punishment is not affected by which weapo...
  • Differences Between The Parties Of The Cu
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    The Computer Underground. The beginning of the electronic communication revolution that started with the public use of telephones to the emergence of home computers has been accompanied by corresponding social problems involving the activities of so-called "computer hackers,' or better referred to as the computer underground (CU). The CU is composed of computer aficionados who stay on the fringes of legality. The CU is composed of relatively intelligent people, in contrast to the media's descrip...

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