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Security on the Internet
Today's information is highly interconnected by the internet. With this interconnection of computer systems through the internet comes computer crime. Breaking into computer systems, damaging information, and stealing information, more commonly known as hacking, has become extremely common on the internet. As hacking becomes more frequent, and as some would say, more of a problem, should we consider hacking a criminal activity?
Information from across the world is stored on computer systems-most of which are connected, networked, to other computer systems through the internet. "In the ideal situation, this interconnection of information enables others from outside a specific computer network to access that specific computer network and its information." (Amoroso, 2003) This has created a world in which information is extremely important and extremely easy to access, which in turn has created a government, business, and personal society that is dependent......

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