Computer Crime

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or causes the denial of computer
services to an authorized user of a computer system.
(e) Misuse of computer system information. A person is guilty of the computer
crime of misuse of computer system information when: (1) As a result of his
accessing or causing to be accessed a computer system, he intentionally makes or
causes to be made an unauthorized display, use, disclosure or copy, in any form,
of data residing in, communicated by or produced by a computer system.

Penalties for committing computer crime range from a class B misdemeanor to a
class B felony. The severity of the penalty is determined based on the monetary
value of the damages inflicted. (2)

The law has not always had much success stopping computer crime. In 1990 there
was a nationwide crackdown on illicit computer hackers, with arrests, criminal
charges, one dramatic show-trial, several guilty pleas, and huge confiscations
of data and equipment all over the USA.

The Hacker Crackdown of 1990 was ...

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trying to compensate for the overflow.

This crash represented a major corporate embarrassment. Sixty thousand people
lost their telephone service completely. During the nine hours of effort that
it took to restore service, some seventy million telephone calls went
uncompleted.

Because of the date of the crash, Martin Luther King Day (the most politically
touchy holiday), and the absence of a physical cause of the destruction, AT&T
did not find it difficult to rouse suspicion that the network had not crashed
by itself- that it had been crashed, intentionally. By people the media has
called hackers.

Hackers define themselves as people who explore technology. If that ...

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