Well according to the ethics and issues section 11-1. A hacker was sentenced to 41 months in jail for illegally using hundreds of company's computers as part of a money-making botnet. The punishment is about the same for auto theft, despite the hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages caused in addition to the thousands of dollars the scheme netted the criminal.
Viruses, DDoS attacks, adware and other malware continue to disrupt businesses and cause damages that are difficult to estimate. Many experts and computer administrators claim that the punishment for cybercrime often is out of proportion with the damages caused by the crime. Some legal experts claim that lax security on the part of Internet users is to blame, and perhaps those who practice lax security should be punished as well.
Others claim that many organizations provide exorbitant estimates of true damages that cybercriminals cause and that these alleged damages provoke an emotional overreaction to the crimes. The types of crimes and international extent of possible damages are relatively new territories in criminal law.
So what do you think?
Should the punishment remain the same?
Is the punishment too harshed?
Should the time be decreased?
Or should it increased?
Reference
Shelly, G. & Vermaat, M. (2011). Computer Security and Safety, Ethics and Privacy:Cybercriminals. In McMahon, K.(Eds). Discovering Computers, Boston: Cengage Learning, pp.562.
I think that Cyber Criminals are the smartest of the smart when it comes to the internet and its technologies. Just imagine that they can break into the tightest most stringent security systems that there is... True be told I wouldn't punish them I would hire them
ReplyDeleteinteresting topic i feel desipte doing time they should work to pay back, like community services or something
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