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How the Computer Criminals Control Information: Typess of Computer Crime

ing involving drug raids, of a computer-related of-

money laundering sei- * Violation of copyright fense must be established
zures, and other arrests in restrictions of commercial for successful prosecution.
encrypt the data or design software can result in the

* Allowing computer staggering loss to busi- * The physical act of a F
criminals to destroy the nesses computer crime, actus O

storage media, such as * Hackers break into com- reus, may be demonstrated R
disks, to eliminate evi- puters with the help of the best by an electronic im- E
dence of their illegal ac- software illegally written pulse N

tivities and sold * It is difficult to define S
* Letting child pornogra- * Successful computer and track I

phers exchange informa- programs, like the word * A computer crime can C
tion through BBSs processing, spreadsheets, occur in 3 milliseconds
and databases are dupli- using a program code that M

These computer crimes re- cated, packaged, and sold tells the software to erase E
quire unique data recovery illegally on a large scale itself after the computer T

techniques in order to gain * Just like the pirated executes the action elimi- H
access to the evidence. audio and video tapes, nating the evidentiary trail O
counterfeit computers and * Causation relates to the D

Computer Crimes peripherals (items such as self-destruction of com- O
Associated With the modems and hard disks) puter programs that fa- L

Prevalence of Computers are also manufactured and cilitate computer crimes O
sold under the guise of and an investigator can G
The presence of comput- originals not show causation if the Y

ers, and microcomputers, offender erases the execut-
generates sinister muta- Legal Issues Of ing instructions

tions of the traditional Computer Crimes * The electronic data in-
crimes like the software terchange (EDI) and its
piracy/counterfeiting, Some States have enacted networks complicate the

copyright violation of laws specifically directed legal elements by making
computer programs, coun- toward computer crimes, computer crimes more dif-

terfeit equipment, black while other States rely ficult for law enforcement
market computer equip- fundamentally on the to specify, document, and
ment and programs, and common law as it applies materially link the crime

theft of technological to current and emerging to an individual
equipment. technology. The elements * The EDI connects par-

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