Internet Crime: Am I Breaking International Law?

By definition, internet crime is crime committed on the internet, using the internet and by means of the internet. Computer crime is a general term that includes such crimes as credit card fraud, bank robbery, industrial espionage, child porn, kidnapping children through use of chat rooms, scams, cyber terrorism, creation or distribution of viruses, spam and so on. All such crimes are computer related and facilitated crimes.

With the evolution of the internet, along came another revolution of crime where the perpetrators can commit acts of crime and wrongdoing on the world wide web. Internet crime takes many faces and is committed in diverse fashions. The number of users and their diversity in their makeup has exposed the internet to everyone. Some criminals in the internet have grown up understanding this superhighway of information, unlike the older generation of users. This is why internet crime has now become a growing problem in the United States. Some crimes committed on the internet have been exposed to the world and some remain a mystery up until they are perpetrated against someone or some company.

The different types of internet crime vary in their design and how easily they are able to be committed. Internet crimes can be separated into two different categories. There are crimes that are only committed while being on the internet and are created exclusively because of the world wide web. The typical crimes in criminal history are now being brought to a whole different level of innovation and ingenuity. Such new crimes devoted to the internet are hijacking domain names, virus immersion, and cyber vandalism. A couple of these crimes are activities that have been exposed and introduced into the world. People have been trying to solve virus problems by installing virus protection and other software that can protect their computers.

The question about how to police these crimes has already

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been constructed, but this task is turning out to be an uphill battle. Since the first computer crime law, the Counterfeit Access Device and Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of nineteen eighty-four, the government has been trying to track down and stop online criminals. The FBI has tried many programs and investigations in order to deter internet crime, like creating an online crime registry for employers. The reality is that internet criminals are rarely caught. One reason is that hackers will use one computer in one country to hack another computer in another country. Another eluding technique used is the changing of the emails, which are involved in virus attacks so that a pattern cannot be recognized. An individual can do their best to protect themselves simply by being cautious and careful. Internet users need to watch suspicious emails, use unique passwords, and run anti virus and anti spyware software.


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