Internet crime

From RationalWiki

Jump to: navigation, search

Interent crime is criminal behavior that makes use of the World Wide Web, a.k.a. the Internet (obviously).

Contents

[edit] Actual Internet Crimes

  • Cracking (Hacking)-circumventing, disabling or revealing the copy protection or other security measures of proprietary software.
  • Cyberterrorism—which consists of using technology to commit real-world acts of terrorism, e.g., cracking into an airline's computer system and crashing a plane. Go to wikipedia article
  • Piracy--The unauthorised copying and distribution of copyright material such as software, music, movies, images, books and other forms of intellectual property.
  • Denial Of Service D.O.S.--organising, usually by installation of a virus on unsuspecting computers, a large number of incoming connection requests to a website in order to overlaod it.
  • Phishing--sending fake emails, ostensibly from reputable organisations, suggesting that the recipient need to respond with certain private information such as bank account details in order for their service to continue.
  • Advance fee fraud--usually by email.
  • Distributing a malicious virus.

[edit] Not Internet Crimes

  • Spyware--software designed to track certain activities and record certain behaviours of a computer user.
  • Wiki Vandalism (Wandalism)-Contrary to the opinion of some wiki administrators such as Andrew Schlafly of Conservapedia,[1] wiki vandalism is not considered a crime, nor is virtually any editing activity on a wiki, hence the fact that a user can lick his tiny digital nipples without fear of consequences aside from banning. As bypassing bans is often lumped in with methods for bypassing censorship, the legality of bypassing a ban is somewhat gray. So even then you can probably still lick the tiny digital nipples of anyone with web-accessible and editable content.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

Personal tools