... what it will be like if users do not have the privacy on the Internet they deserve. EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center), a advocacy group that has been fighting the Clinton Administration for tougher online consumer protection laws, and other privacy protection agencies have formed to protect the rights and privileges of ... the Internet user. With the U.S. Government, EPIC has had to step in and help small companies and Internet users with their own privacy problems, hackers getting into their ... day occurring problem from eventually taking over the already used widely IP ad...

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... . Australian Government Publishing Service. 1995 Anonymous 1. House threats. The Daily Telegraph, 20 March 2000 Anonymous 2. Protection for personal e-mail. The Daily Telegraph, 31 March 2000 Harris, S. Privacy laws for e-mails. The Daily Telegraph, 31 March 2000 Johnson, C. W. 2000. Notes on Computer Systems. Uts printing services. 2000 Nuttyputty.com 1999. Safety, Security and Shopping Online at ... . Australian Government Publishing Service. 1995 Anonymous 1. House threats. The Daily Telegraph, 20 March 2000 Anonymous 2. Protection for personal e-mail. The Daily Telegraph, 31 March 200...

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... others, computers. If found working for the government, all evidence could be thrown out of the federal court case for violating search and seizure laws. If Williams was in California, he would be charged with illegally hacking into computers. Three years ago, Williams tipped the Canadian Police to ... October 2003, the U.S. District Judge Consuelo B. Marshall threw out all but one charge, finding the 4th amendment to uphold Kline's right to privacy. In a letter devised to prohibit illegal or sexually explicit web page browsing sent to all federal court house employees, workers were adv...

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... while logged onto the Internet is recorded somewhere (Boyan, Codel, and Parekh 3). An individual's personal security is the major issue surrounding the Internet. If a person cannot be secure and have privacy on the Internet, the whole system will fail. According to the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), any website can find out whose server and the location of the server ... have support from the government. In the United States there is no set of laws that protect a person's privacy when on the Internet. The closest rules that come to setting a standard of privacy is an assortm...

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... while logged onto the Internet is recorded somewhere (Boyan, Codel, and Parekh 3). An individual's personal security is the major issue surrounding the Internet. If a person cannot be secure and have privacy on the Internet, the whole system will fail. According to the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), any website can find out whose server and the location of the server ... have support from the government. In the United States there is no set of laws that protect a person's privacy when on the Internet. The closest rules that come to setting a standard of privacy is an assortm...

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... while logged onto the Internet is recorded somewhere (Boyan, Codel, and Parekh 3). An individual's personal security is the major issue surrounding the Internet. If a person cannot be secure and have privacy on the Internet, the whole system will fail. According to the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), any website can find out whose server and the location of the server ... have support from the government.In the United States there is no set of laws that protect a person's privacy when on the Internet. The closest rules that come to setting a standard of privacy is an assortme...

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... is the added problem of who will keep the government in check when they have such a broad range in which to use their power. "Its bipartisan sponsors argue that such laws are necessary to thwart terrorism. "It is essential that we give our law enforcement authorities every possible tool to search out and bring to justice those individuals who have brought ... have no intention of creating or leaving a hole in our software that might compromise that security."(Reuters). As long as the private sector companies like Symantec take this stance our privacy and the integrity of the computer in...

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... Interested only in analyzing systems and writing programming code, they never got involved in any criminal activities, malicious intents or in breaking the rule of privacy and property. On the contrary, they followed the hacker ethic, which tells that "the search for information and expertise is vital and sharing this ... says that above all he decided to become this "techno freak" because he seemed to know a lot about it and also because there were no laws to it. Today hackers like Captain Zap are considered as hackers who wear the black hat (TLC). The hackers, "wearing" the black hat...

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... Interested only in analyzing systems and writing programming code, they never got involved in any criminal activities, malicious intents or in breaking the rule of privacy and property. On the contrary, they followed the hacker ethic, which tells that "the search for information and expertise is vital and sharing this ... says that above all he decided to become this "techno freak" because he seemed to know a lot about it and also because there were no laws to it. Today hackers like Captain Zap are considered as hackers who wear the black hat (TLC). The hackers, "wearing" the black hat...

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Computer Crime Laws must be passed to address the increase in the number and types of computer crimes. Over the last twenty years, a technological revolution has occurred, as computers are now an essential ... crimes. "The U.S. House of Judiciary Committee approved a bipartisan computer crime bill that was expanded to make it a federal crime to hack into credit and other data bases protected by federal privacy statutes."(Markoff, B 13:1) This bill is generally creating several categories of federal misdemeanor felonies for unauthorized access to computers to obtain money, goods or services o...

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... crimes. "The U.S. House of Judiciary Committee approved a bipartisan computer crime bill that was expanded to make it a federal crime to hack into credit and other data bases protected by federal privacy statutes."(Markoff, B 13:1) This bill is generally creating several categories of federal misdemeanor felonies for unauthorized access to computers to obtain money, goods or services or classified information. This also ... the difference between on-line computer experimenters. They also point out that, while the computer networks and the results are a new kind of crime, they are protec...

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... juvenile was in a view only program and could not alter the prescriptions, and no evidence was found that he dispersed the information, this was still viewed as a serious invasion of privacy and the nature of his actions were found to be criminal. In result to a plea-bargained decision the juvenile received two years' probation, ordered to complete 250 hours of community ... because they are the first ever to have been brought against a juvenile by the federal government for commission of a computer crime. The juvenile was not publicly named due to federal laws concerning juvenile cases...

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... us to Emile Durkheim theory that Deviance brings about social change. The social change that is evident in the case of hackers is fear, fear of surfing the internet with privacy. Hacking is a major crime on the Net. "$7.5 billion of American Software is stolen each year from hacking."" (Healy, 4) Stealing of information from corporate sites is extremely illegal. "Industrial Espionage a hacking ... that people are constantly developing more hack proof systems. This presents the hackers with a bigger challenge and a bigger thrill. "The government is realizing this and is working on making...

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... re-edit it. Meaning that one could be tried as a hacker on different levels and not as a terrorist. This will bring the necessity of creating a new set of rules or laws that would put different hackers on different levels and tried accordingly. Another solution could be to set up a team of people that will personally hunt for terrorist activity on the ... effective would be to edit the bill, which is the first solution. Sure creating a team of workers to hunt for terrorist activity could be productive, but it still pushes aside privacy acts and protection. Plus it will be very hard for ...

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