U.S. Computer Crime Statutes
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation makes a distinction between crimes against computers and crimes involving computers. A crime against a computer, for example, is when an unauthorized person accesses a computer. A crime involving a computer might be a case of cyberstalking, in which the computer was only the tool used to commit the crime.
This is a valuable distinction when discussing legal aspects of computer crime. Many of the crimes people hear about are not crimes against computers at all. These typically are processed under other statutes such as fraud or theft. It is also possible for a crime to be a combination of the two. For example, if a hacker breaks into an e-commerce site and steals credit card ...
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