Computer Crimes Essay Research Paper Computer Crimes

Computer Crimes Essay, Research Paper

Computer Crimes

It’s the weekend, you have nothing to do so you decide to play around on

your computer. You turn it on and then start up, you start calling people with

your modem, connecting to another world, with people just like you at a button

press away. This is all fine but what happens when you start getting into other

peoples computer files. Then it becomes a crime, but what is a computer crime

really, obviously it involves the use of a computer but what are these crimes.

Well they are: Hacking, Phreaking, & Software Piracy.

To begin I will start with Hacking, what is hacking. Hacking is basically

using your computer to “Hack” your way into another. They use programs called

scanners which randomly dials numbers any generating tones or carriers are

recorded. These numbers are looked at by hackers and then used again, when the

hacker calls up the number and gets on he’s presented with a logon prompt, this

is where the hacking really begins, the hacker tries to bypass this anyway he

knows how to and tries to gain access to the system. Why do they do it, well

lets go to a book and see “Avid young computer hackers in their preteens and

teens are frequently involved in computer crimes that take the form of

trespassing, invasion of privacy, or vandalism. Quite often they are mearly out

for a fun and games evening, and they get entangled in the illegal use of their

machines without realizing the full import of what they are doing”, I have a

hard time believing that so lets see what a “hacker” has to say about what he

does “Just as they were enthraled with their pursuit of information, so are we.

The thrill of the hack is not in breaking the law, it’s in the pursuit and

capture of knowledge.”, as you can see the “hacker” doesn’t go out to do destroy

things although some do. It’s in the pursuit of knowledge. Of course this is

still against the law. But where did all of this start, MIT is where hacking

started the people there would learn and explore computer systems all around the

world. In the views of professional hacking is like drugs or any other addictive

substance, it’s an addiction for the mind and once started it’s difficult to

stop. This could be true, as hackers know what they are doing is wrong and they

know odds are they will be caught. But as I mentioned some hackers are just

above average criminals, using there skills to break in banks and other places

where they can get money, or where they can destroy information. What a hacker

does at a bank is take a few cents or even a few fractions of a cents from many

different accounts this may seem like nothing but when all compiled can be alot.

A stick up robber averages about $8,000 each “job”, and he has to put his life

and personal freedom on the line to do it while the computer hacker in the

comfort of his own living room averages $500,000 a “job”. As for people

destroying information, this is for taking some one down, destruction of data

could end a business which for some is very attractive. It can cost a company

thousands of dollars to restore the damage done.

Now that you have an understanding of what a “hacker” is, it time to move

on to someone closely associates with a hacker. This is a Phreak, but what is

that. For the answer we turn to the what is known as the “Official” Phreakers

Manual “Phreak [fr'eek] 1. The action of using mischievous and mostly illegal

ways in order to not pay for some sort of telecommunications bill, order,

transfer, or other service. It often involves usage of highly illegal boxes and

machines in order to defeat the security that is set up to avoid this sort of

happening. [fr'eaking] v. 2. A person who uses the above methods of destruction

and chaos in order to make a better life for all. A true phreaker will not go

against his fellows or narc on people who have ragged on him or do anything

termed to be dishonourable to phreaks. [fr'eek] n. 3. A certain code or dialup

useful in the action of being a phreak. (Example: “I hacked a new metro phreak

last night.”)” The latter 2 ideas of what a phreak is, is rather weird. A

Phreak like the hacker likes to explore and experiment, however his choice of

exploring is not other computer but the phone system as a whole. Phreaks explore

the phone system finding many different ways to do things, most often make free

calls. Why do they do this, ” A hacker and phreaker will have need to use

telephone systems much more than an average individual, therefore, methods which

can be used to avoid toll charges are in order. “. A phreak has two basic ways

of making free calls, he can call up codes or PBXs on his phone and then enter a

code and make his call or he can use Electronic Toll Fraud Devices. Codes are

rather easy to get the phreak will scan for them, but unlike a hacker will only

save the tone(s) num

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