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Computer Crimes

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Ethical And Social Issues In The Information Age

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It is difficult to define a computer crime without getting tangled up in the legal terminology. We will try to make it simple for the rest of us nonlawyers. A computer crime is a crime like any other crime, except that in this case the illegal act must involve a computer system either as an object of a crime, an instrument used to commit a crime, or a repository of evidence related to a crime. With the Internet, the scope of computer crimes has widened to actually include crimes that would normally be associated with telecommunication facilities. Because of this, we want to expand our definition of a computer crime to be an illegal act that involves a computer system or computer-related system like a telephone, microwave, satellite or other telecommunications system that connect one or more computers or computer-related systems.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN, 37403, USA

    Joseph Migga Kizza

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(2003). Computer Crimes. In: Kizza, J.M. (eds) Ethical And Social Issues In The Information Age. Texts in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-22466-4_9

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