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Computer Crime: The Crime of the Future


English II
6 April 1996

Explosive growth in the computer industry over the last decade has made
new technologies cheaper and simpler for the average person to own. As a result,
computers play an intricate part in our daily lives. The areas in which
computers affect life are infinite, ranging from entertainment to finances. If
anything were to happen to these precious devices, the world would be chaotic.
There is a type of person that thrives on chaos, that is the malevolent
hacker. Some hackers act on revenge or just impersonal mischievousness. But
whatever their motives, their deeds can be destructive to a person's computer.
An attack by a hacker not only affects the victim, but others as well.
One case involving a notorious hacker named Kevin Mitnick did just that.
Mitnick is a very intelligent man. He is 31 and pending trial for computer
fraud. When he was a teenager, he used his knowledge of computers to break into
the North......

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