Computer Crime Final

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The issue of Computer Crime has been a major problem that needs to be resolved. Computer Crime is spreading uncontrollably causing massive destruction around the world. In the past 5 years the rate of Cyber Crime has increased by 13 percent and extended to 7 different countries. There are several fallacies/current conditions that are associated with this problem including, Legal, Financial and Social Issues. Right now the police is trying to act upon this crime but it is not working since there is no way that they can keep up with it there is way too much for them to try and handle themselves. Was the New Deal of the 1930s a liberal plan to create a welfare state in America, or was it a conservative defense of American capitalism?

Determining the reasons for this controversy is the best way to prevent Computer Crime situations from occurring in the future. “Computer Crime started in 1971 known as the first ever recorded attack when John Draper realized that a toy whistle in a cereal box could make the 2600-hertz tone which in that time frame was required to produce a free long-distance call” (Migga Kigga, 407). Then, later after many hacking incidents in 1988 a guy named Robert T. Morris Jr., who graduated from Cornell University launched a self-replicating worm on the governments ARPANET to test the effects on the system. But as it turns out the worm gets much more serve and spreads to 6,000 network computers which ended up clogging the government and as a resultant the University systems. Morris was then dismissed from Cornell, sentenced three years of prohibition and fined 10,000 dollars (Migga Kigga, 408). Nowadays your computer or any electronic devices are never safe from this crime because in 2004 there was an investigatio...

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... more problem than expected from the beginning. The people can see that others do care and are doing everything that they can in order to prevent the situation from ever happening in the first place. Companies, Police, Public, America There will be a lot less crime and investigation happening cause of the reduction to these crimes. Companies, Police, Public, America

Importance of Solving the Controversy In the past 5 years the rate of Cyber Crime has increased by 13 percent and extended to 7 different countries. If nothing else is done soon it will only lead up to much bigger problems that will dig such a huge crater that we might not ever be able to fill and get back on top. The issue of Computer Crime has been a major problem that needs to be resolved. If Computer Crime is not, it will continue to spread uncontrollably causing massive destruction around the world.

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