Talk:Computer crime

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Contents 1 Stub or not 2 Who was the first person to ever start Computer Forensics? 3 Getting lottery emails and fund transfer emails regularly 4 Grammar? 5 Child Porn? 6 What about US law 7 hacking 8 Fraud 9 Merge

[edit] Stub or not

I'm not quite sure whether to call this a stub or not. Most of what could be added is already covered in the articles it links to. There's not a lot of consistency in these, which is no suprise, there are lots of opinions in this area. But I think overall the coverage of the topic is pretty good already. Always room for improvement of course. Andrewa 21:06, 15 Oct 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Who was the first person to ever start Computer Forensics?

I just was wondering if anyone knew who was the first to start that. I have to write a paper about it, but i cant seem to find it anywhere. Please Help. mrswayzee

[edit] Getting lottery emails and fund transfer emails regularly

hello I am getting such type of emails regularly. They asks processing charges to transfer the winning amount. All from Sweden, Netherland.

From Nigeria fund transfer email comes. They have 10 million US Dollors to transfer, they offer 30% to me. Rest to them. What Profit they gets by this transfer, God only knows. But the thing which I know is these all are crimes.

Manoj Sinha

Nigerian Letter, Lottery Scams, etc. fit under the category of Advance fee fraud. They profit by falsely promising money in return for a relatively small advance fee, paid by the victim. Check out the Wikipedia article for more info. 206.174.154.125 05:30, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Grammar?

"...except where a non-commercial distribution has a not-insignificant effect on the copyright owner's business."

Shouldn't it be "significant effect"? Or are double negatives cool when you do law?

All I do is copy it down as parliament wrote it. Sadly, I did not make this up which would have been a not-unamusing thing to have done. David91 05:30, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

many kids find ways to hack on to the computer and do the wrong things . this should be stopped and men should have respect and leave kids alone. internet crime is to much. to many kids are being abused and raped from the wrong people.

as a student :gina

I'd like to see you find a way to stop computer crime. Especially when the combined governments of the world can't. And, this talk page is a discussion about the article, NOT a debate about the morality of computer crime. Also learn some English and basic sentence structure/grammar. 203.13.41.4 06:33, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Child Porn?

The article says " Child pornography is illegal in most states." Are there States in America where child pornography IS legal??!! 203.13.41.4 01:51, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

I am sorry. Was it the use of the word "state" that made you think I was talking about America? Sadly, your assumption is completely unjustified. Most states in the world. . . When I write material relevant only to the U.S., I use U.S. state. David91 02:50, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Fair enough. Thanks for clarifying that. 203.13.41.4 06:31, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] What about US law

Would be useful if this article covered US computer crime laws, as well as British ones. Despite being British myself, I actually came here to find out about the US equivalents. Perhaps there's somewhere we could request help on this one? JulesH 17:31, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] hacking

hacking is used as a crime term this is incorect hacking can refer to more things then just internet crime please use a better term for this

[edit] Fraud

The fruad section breaks my margins

Dustin 19:43, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge

It has been suggested that the article Cybercrime be merged into Computer crime. I would be against that, but would be in favour of a merge the other way as this is topic covered by an international treaty Convention on Cybercrime. The scope of the Cybercrime Convention can be used to defines the core scope of the merged article.

Stealing memory from a computer or stealing laptops is a computer crime as it is a crime that involves computers, but it is not cybercrime which is what this article seems to be about. --Philip Baird Shearer (talk) 22:24, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

My solution would be to move the article Cybercrime to an archive talk page and move this article over the redirect created by that move so preserving the history of this article. If there is a consensus to do this and there is no friendly administrator to hand then leave a message on my talk page (as I do not watch this talk page) and as such a move is limited to an administrator making it. --Philip Baird Shearer (talk) 22:38, 26 April 2008 (UTC)