Computer+Crimes+and+Security+Reflection

Zach Sweetser
I think computer crimes are very bad because hackers trick the people you know into doing things like sending money to them for some random reason. With credit cards those same hackers could steal all of your money and you wouldn’t even know till it was too late. I don’t have to worry about the credit card fraud because I don’t have one. I’m not too worried about my e-mails because most of my passwords are different.

Robert Bradford
**A computer crime can happen in many different ways like fraud, theft, blackmail, forgery, and embezzlement. A computer crime refers to criminal activity where a computer or network is the source, tool, target, or place of crime. I personally have never been affected by a computer crime because I can read the since of something bad like never open spam.**

Alan
2-6-09  **__  Computer Crimes and Security Reflection  __** Computer crime, cybercrime , e-crime , hi-tech crime or electronic crime generally refers to criminal activity where a computer or network is the source, tool, target, or place of a crime. Computer crime can broadly be defined as criminal activity involving an information technology infrastructure, including illegal access (unauthorized access), illegal interception (by technical means of non-public transmissions of computer data to, from or within a computer system), data interference (unauthorized damaging, deletion, deterioration, alteration or suppression of computer data), systems interference (interfering with the functioning of a computer system by inputting, transmitting, damaging, deleting, deteriorating, altering or suppressing computer data), misuse of devices, forgery (ID theft), and electronic fraud. From what I have seen there is way to much computer crime going on in our society. The computer crimes are related to security crimes such as what is going on with the bank. Someone either on the inside, or someone obviously on the outside, hacked into the system to obtain personal information about the bank customers and employees. In my opinion, the hackers are always going to be one step ahead of the new security updates so there has to be some way to outsmart them. That’s all I can really think about soo…………….

Seth Flynn
Computer crimes are crimes that are used to damage computers, but can also be to scam people through their computers on the World Wide Web. I believe that if you compose a computer crime you are horrible person. People that create viruses are just wasting their time to cause suffering to people because they have fun doing so or they want to steal and scam people. Hackers are constantly finding new ways to break through security and steal or damage computers. Instead of contributing to society these people scourge the World Wide Web decrease the movement of society by stealing from other people in our society. Nowadays people are using online websites such as ‘MySpace’ or ‘facebook’ to steal, scam, or persuade people. The web is a scary place filled with predators and thieves. Recently on the news there is a report about predators finding young kids online. Also hackers are hacking facebooks to pretend to be legitimate and persuading people into giving them money.

Charles
A computer crime is where a computer or network is the source or target of a crime like Fraud, Theft, Blackmail, and Forgery. I think that people who do computer crimes are stupid for doing it because it could get you in a lot of trouble. But also I can see the good things that come out from doing a computer crime. Like finding out whether or not someone is going to commit a crime or has committed a terrible crime. People who think they can trust a person on facebook or MySpace enough to go see them those people are really stupid. If people haven’t been watching T.V. and seen that people make fake accounts so why go see the person.

Coleman Gross
There are no precise, reliable statistics on the amount of computer crime and the economic loss to victims, partly because many of these crimes are apparently not detected by victims, many of these crimes are never reported  many crimes involving computers are no different from crimes without computers: the computer is only a tool that a criminal uses to commit a crime. For example, Using a computer, a scanner, graphics software, and a high-quality color laser or ink jet printer for forgery or counterfeiting is the same crime as using an old-fashioned printing press with ink. Stealing a laptop computer with proprietary information stored on the hard disk inside the computer is the same crime as stealing a briefcase that contains papers with proprietary information. Using computers can be another way to commit either larceny or fraud. Change a grade on a school transcript; add "money" to a checking account, etc. Unauthorized changing of data is generally a fraudulent act.  Reflection: I believe the fact that this person stole someone’s identity for money is wrong. It puts people in a very hard position with little to no money. Many people who try to hack computers will eventually be caught and punished. They should stop and think what if it was them getting scammed out of their money.

Brandon Nadeau
Computer Crime Computer Crime is a big problem. A computer crime is when people steal your passwords and credit card number. The reason people want that information is they want to get money from you. You use security to block people from being able to get your info. You have to stay one step ahead of them.

Computer crimes range from the catastrophic to annoying. A case of computer-driven espionage might wreak devastating losses to national security. A case of commercial computer theft might drive a company out of business. A cracker's prank might not actually cause damage at all but it might cause a video game company or another computer user some annoyance. Some computer crimes are perpetrated for kicks, and some for social or political causes; others are the serious business of professional criminals. I think people have way too much time on their hands. First of all if you’re making a virus just to have some fun, you seriously need to do something with your life. Second it’s annoying. Last but not least just a get a life.
 * Ariana Pilgrim **