Assignment title: Information
Use examples from the readings, or from your own research, to support your views, as appropriate. For your follow-up posts this week, you may wish to visit a couple of the web sites contributed by your classmates and share your opinion of these sites with the class. Be sure to read the follow-up posts to your own posts and reply to any questions or requests for clarification. You are encouraged to conduct research and use other sources to support your answers. Be sure to list your references at the end of your post. References must be in APA citation format. The posts must be a minimum of 400-450 words.
1. Why do many in the computer community oppose the use of "hacker" to describe cybercriminals?
Can a meaningful distinction be drawn between hacking and cracking? What kind of hacking can be justified on either legal or ethical grounds?
2. Research the Pirate Bay Trial: Guilty Verdict http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/apr/17/the-pirate-bay-trial-guilty-verdict.
What implications does the conviction of the four cofounders of the Pirate Bay Web site in 2009 have for international attempts to prosecute intellectual property crimes globally? Should the four men also have been required to stand trial in all of the countries in which copyrighted material had been downloaded from their Web site? Will the outcome of the Pirate Bay trial likely deter entrepreneurs, worldwide, from setting up future P2P sites that allow the illicit file sharing of copyrighted material? What is your opinion of the case.
This homework needs to have a minimum of 450 words.
Please cite the following:
Chapter 5 - Techniques and Resources for Computer Crime, Easttom & Taylor
Chapter 6 - Organized Crime and Cyber Terrorism, Easttom & Taylor
Chapter 7 - Observing, Collecting, Documenting, and Storing Electronic Evidence, Easttom & Taylor
Chapter 5 - The Computer Investigation Process, Cross
Easttom, C., & Taylor, F. (2011)
Computer Crime, Investigation, and the Law
Cengage Technology, Boston, MA
Cross, M. (2008)
Scene of the Cybercrime, 2nd Edition
Syngress Publishing, Burlington, MA