In this article the Computer Misuse Act 1990 was raised. It states that a teenage from Dorset England. Aaron Caffrey aged 19 had apparently sent a virus to another person computer while they were at work at America’s bigger port. The convicted was accused of hacking into the system and sent a virus use cause the either network of computers which caused them all to crash. The law that he had broken was the Computer Misuse Act 1990 the law states the following: “The Act contains three main offences
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Computer Misuse Act 1990 The computer misuse act of 1990 is a law in the UK that makes certain activities illegal‚ such as hacking into other people’s systems‚ misusing software‚ or helping a person gain access to protected files of someone else’s computer. The main goal of the Act was to discourage this kind of behaviour in the future. The act identifies three specific offences: 1. Unauthorised access to computer material. 2. Unauthorised access to a computer system with intent to break‚ change
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Computer Misuse Act – Jake Barrell Computer misuse act came to force in 1990. The Act Covers This act covers hacking which is when someone illegally gains access to a computer with someone else’s username or password which you do not have permission to use being unauthorised access‚ modify files or data without the consent of the creator‚ or commit illegal acts such as fraud while using the stolen username or password. Examples of unauthorised access An employee uses a company computer to
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properly according to the social rules of a language. Poor pragmatic competence will cause pragmatic failure. After Thomas‚ other scholars also made research into pragmatic failure. Some principles and theories they have formed‚ such as speech act theory‚ the theory of conversational implicature‚ relevance theory‚ the politeness principle‚ the cooperative principle etc‚ which provided a basis for our study on the pragmatic failure. Generally speaking‚ According to British linguist Thomas’s opinion
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Data Protection Act- 8 principles Founded in 1998 Personal data must be: 1. Processed fairly and lawfully. 2. Processed only for one or more specified and lawful purpose. 3. Adequate‚ relevant and not excessive for those purposes. 4. Accurate and kept up to date - data subjects have the right to have inaccurate personal data corrected or destroyed if the personal information is inaccurate to any matter of fact. 5. Kept for no longer than is necessary for the purposes it is being processed.
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Computer misuse: Computer and internet availability is not a big issue now. Most of the people try to misuse the computer resources. Some willing misuse the computer and some people unknowingly misuse the law. Mentioned below are the categories of computer misuse. Computer hacking: Computer hacking is a technique of taking access over the unpermitted network or modem or other devices and the internet. The hackers usually try to grant admittance to the passwords and several different security sites
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COMPARISON BETWEEN COMPUTER CRIME ACT 1997 AND COMPUTER MISUSE ACT 1990 (UK) As the Malaysian society becomes more and more technology-savvy and Internet savvy due to the encouragement by the government and the country’s vision to be a world leading country in computer technology with the Multimedia Super Corridor‚ the number of computer-related crimes is on the rise. Therefore‚ in order to combat this new type of crime‚ the government of Malaysia had introduced a new legal framework to
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Computer Fraud and Abuse Act The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is a law passed by the United States Congress in 1986 intended to reduce cracking of computer systems and to address federal computer-related offenses. The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (codified as 18 U.S.C. § 1030 governs cases with a compelling federal interest‚ where computers of the federal government or certain financial institutions are involved‚ where the crime itself is interstate in nature‚ or computers used in interstate and
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Overview Due to the advance technology of the Internet‚ the government‚ private industry and the everyday computer user have fears of their data or private information being comprised by a criminal hacker. C.C. Palmer‚ who manages the Network Security and Cryptography department at the IBM. Thomas J. Watson Research Center writes‚ “They are afraid that some hacker will break into their Web server and replace their logo with pornography‚ read their e-mail‚ steal their credit card number from an
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White-collar crime‚ specifically computer crime‚ is becoming more popular as computers become more readily available. Crimes using computers and crimes against computers are usually committed without fear of being caught‚ due to the detachment of the offender from the victim. Computer crime is defined as‚ “Criminal activity directly related to the use of computers‚ specifically illegal trespass into the computer system or database of another‚ manipulation or theft of stored or on-line data‚ or sabotage
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