Discussion On Current Computing Issues

Although computers are very useful and essential to us, somehow, they are some people who do not appreciate it and commit computer crimes, which are also known as cyber crimes. They generally refer to criminal activity where a computer or network is the source, tool, target, or place of a crime. These categories are not exclusive and many activities can be characterized as falling in one or more category. Additionally, although the terms computer crime or cyber crime are more properly restricted to describing criminal activity in which the computer or network is a necessary part of the crime.

These crimes comprises of fraud, theft, blackmail, forgery and embezzlement. Basically, Computer crime can broadly be defined as criminal activity involving an information technology infrastructure, including illegal access, illegal interception (by technical means of non-public transmissions of computer data to, from or within a computer system), data interference systems interference (interfering with the functioning of a computer system by inputting, transmitting, damaging, deleting, deteriorating, altering or suppressing computer data), misuse of devices and forgery (ID theft).

And, we know that people who committed these hi-tech crimes are hackers. People engaged in circumvention of computer security. This primarily refers to unauthorized remote computer break-ins via a communication network such as the Internet black hats, but also includes those who debug or fix security problems. Its earliest known meaning in the computer context referred to an unauthorized user of the telephone company network Hackers usually do this for gaining profit or just for their enthusiasm.
A set of questions pertaining to the Internet that are becoming more widely discussed are questions relating to the values that some may wish to promote via the Internet. Some have claimed that the internet is a "democratic technology", or an e-democracy. But is it really? Does the Internet foster democracy? Should it? Does the digital divide raise ethical issues that society is morally obligated to ameliorate?

In conclusion, e-democracy can be adopted by privacy must be cared and all of the internet users, including us must do the right thing, obey the techniques.
Tremendous increase in computer crimes 2007