 Internet crime is, Any crime or illegal activity committed online or through the internet.

 Telecommunication is, wiretapping.

 Fraud, achieved by the manipulation of computer records.  Spamming, wherever outlawed completely or where regulations controlling it are violated.  No programs or data.  Intellectual property theft.  Identity theft.  Writing or spreading computer viruses or worms.

 Computer hacking is, the practice of modifying computer hardware and software to accomplish a goal outside of the creator’s purpose.

 Jonathan James

 Kevin MitNick

 Albert Gonzalez

 Kevin Poulsen

 Gary McKinnon

 Identity theft  Internet scams  Cyber stalking

 Tapping peoples computers  Pretending to be someone so the computer user gets caught

Computer crime law deals with the broad range of criminal offenses committed using a computer or similar electronic device. Nearly all of these crimes are perpetrated online. The internet provides a degree of anonymity to offenders, as well as potential access to personal, business, and government data. Many computer crimes are committed as a means of stealing money or valuable information

People think that hacking a computer is not a crime because, people feel like they should be able to do there own thing even if its hacking a computer

 Add, delete or change things in the computer  Modify or develop computer programs that commit the crime  Modify the data files

It’s important that we become of computer crime because, people could be going into our personal things on our computers and we don’t even realize it

Some steps that we can use to maintain our computer is: Put a password on your computer, always check if there is any change on your computer, modify the websites you use and make sure they are not dangerous to your computer