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Khalilah Ruffins
INF 103: Computer Literacy
Computer Crime
Instructor Name: Erika McCulloch
Dec. 20, 20008
There are no accurate, reliable statistics on the amount of computer crime and the economic loss to victims, partly because many of these crimes are actually not detected by victims, many of these crimes are never reported to authorities, and partly because the losses are often difficult to compute. How ever, there is an agreement among both law enforcement personnel and computer scientists who specialize in security that both equally the number of computer crime incidents and the sophistication of computer criminals are increasing rapidly. Estimates are that computer crime costs victims in the USA at least US$ 5×108/year and the true value of such crime might be substantially higher. Experts in computer security, who are not attorneys, speak of "information warfare". While such "information warfare" is just another name for computer crime, the word "warfare" does fairly......

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