Monday, July 16, 2007
Chapter 6 - Penalties for hacking
I was happy to read that the penalties for hacking are severe. Up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine! There are also laws against hacking into telephones, email, or any other data transmissions. I agree whole-heartedly that these actions should be persecuted within the fullest extent of the law. I believe that so much of this type of crime goes unseen or unpersecuted simply because these criminals can be so hard to track down. Just about the time that the police are able to find out how to track down a group, they are able to cover up their tracks and then you've got people working full time just to keep up with the technology, let alone actually use it to find the criminals. Also, so many hackers do not act alone. We recently saw Live Free or Die Hard and although I'm sure it wasn't completely believable, it did demonstrate that there are hacker organizations and there can be hundreds of people involved in one hack. Who is to blame? Who gets in trouble? Do they all get the same punishment? I think our law enforcement organizations have a long way to go before they can really keep up with this kind of crime.
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I agree with your Blog on Penalties for hacking. After reading the textbooks, I am amazed at what all hackers can do. They can do some serious damage (mess with 911, telephone companies, hack into peoples computers and stealing their personal information. The FBI, police officers, etc. spend many hours trying to capture hackers and child molesters. I agree with what you say. The police task have lots of work to do before they are able to keep up with all of the hacking. Like you said, hackers work in groups and make it hard to identify them.
I just saw Live Free or Die Hard this week. I found it more interesting and believeable after the readings we have done for this class. I know that it was a ficitious movie, but I suppose in time someone will figure out how to do something like that. It is scary to think how open our lives become when we choose to use the internet.
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