The Future of Computer Crime in America
Sociology Research Paper
Sociology per. #2
10/8/96
Sociology Topics:
Future Society
Social Change
Social and Environmental Issues
Deviant Behavior
Crime/Corrections
Name: Brandon Robinson
Period: # 2
The proliferation of home computers, and of home computers equipped with
modems, has brought about a major transformation in the way American society
communicates, interacts, and receives information. All of these changes being
popularized by the media and the wide increased personal and private sector use
of the Internet. All of these factors plus the fact of more and more business
and government institutions are jumping to make the use of these services has
put a much wider range of information at the finger tips of those, often select
and few individuals whom know how to access, understand and use these
information sources. Often times today this information is of a very sensitive
and private nature on anything from IRS Tax returns, to Top Secret NASA payload
launch information. Piled on top of that many times the individuals accessing
these information sources are doing so by illegal means and are often motivated
by deviant and illegal means. It is said that at any given time the average
American has his name on an active file in over 550 computer information
databases of which nearly 90% are online, and of the 550 databases the number
comes no where close to how many time your personal information is listed in
some database in an unactive file. The "Average American" could simply sit in
his/her home doing nearly nothing all day long and still have his/her name go
through over 1,000 computers a day.
All of these vast information files all hold the crucial ones and zero's
of data that make up your life as you and all others know it. All of these data
bits, at the hands 100,000's of people. With little or NO central control or
regulatory agency to oversee the safe... [continues]
Sociology Research Paper
Sociology per. #2
10/8/96
Sociology Topics:
Future Society
Social Change
Social and Environmental Issues
Deviant Behavior
Crime/Corrections
Name: Brandon Robinson
Period: # 2
The proliferation of home computers, and of home computers equipped with
modems, has brought about a major transformation in the way American society
communicates, interacts, and receives information. All of these changes being
popularized by the media and the wide increased personal and private sector use
of the Internet. All of these factors plus the fact of more and more business
and government institutions are jumping to make the use of these services has
put a much wider range of information at the finger tips of those, often select
and few individuals whom know how to access, understand and use these
information sources. Often times today this information is of a very sensitive
and private nature on anything from IRS Tax returns, to Top Secret NASA payload
launch information. Piled on top of that many times the individuals accessing
these information sources are doing so by illegal means and are often motivated
by deviant and illegal means. It is said that at any given time the average
American has his name on an active file in over 550 computer information
databases of which nearly 90% are online, and of the 550 databases the number
comes no where close to how many time your personal information is listed in
some database in an unactive file. The "Average American" could simply sit in
his/her home doing nearly nothing all day long and still have his/her name go
through over 1,000 computers a day.
All of these vast information files all hold the crucial ones and zero's
of data that make up your life as you and all others know it. All of these data
bits, at the hands 100,000's of people. With little or NO central control or
regulatory agency to oversee the safe... [continues]
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