... any single one of the traditional legal categories. With this new breed of technology has come a new breed of policing because inevitably with this sophisticated electronic freedom has come a whole new form of crime. Due to the explosion of internet use, al the networks around the world have brought with it a need for greater security consciousness. As a result technology is required to be constantly updated in the war against the ever growing insidious and malicious criminals. There are a number of ways in which computers can be used for crime, firstly is to commit "real world" crimes such as fraud, forgery, secondly is to modify or damage other computerised systems and these are the types of activities that are usually prosecuted using computer crime legislation. However the use of a computer to assist in committing an offence doesn't change the essence of criminal activity. The ...

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