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November 21st, 2003, 12:05 AM
#1
Junior Member
Types of Crime that uses IT Systems as weapons?
I'm writing a paper for class on the types of Crime that uses IT Systems as weapons. I was wondering what your guys thoughts were on this, how would you define the different types of crime that could use IT systems as weapons?
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November 21st, 2003, 12:16 AM
#2
Really, pick your crime..... Other than physical..... Your imagination is the limit......
Don\'t SYN us.... We\'ll SYN you.....
\"A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools.\" - Thucydides
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November 21st, 2003, 01:35 AM
#3
Junior Member
Good point well maybe I should ask on what type of crime that you guys experience the most? Since I know a lot of you work with computers and are computer security enthusiasts
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November 21st, 2003, 01:57 AM
#4
Hi, phreeOn
I have a few weeks to spare for this kind of stuff.....................please feel free to PM or e mail me.
EDIT: sorry...........hit wrong button...I used to work for PW Coopers...out of the military....I have some ideas that might help?
Cheers
Johnno
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November 21st, 2003, 03:13 AM
#5
Junior Member
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November 21st, 2003, 04:58 AM
#6
Other than physical? So if I beat you to death with my keyboard, then what?
On a more serious note, look into terrorists sending stegonagraphically encoded messages over public channells to spread news of thier plans. It happens, it gets the attention of Joe B Donuts, and it's not something most people are aware of. I think that would make for an interesting paper.
Government is like fire - a handy servant, but a dangerous master - George Washington
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence - it is force. - George Washington.
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November 21st, 2003, 05:45 AM
#7
Worms and trojons are by far the most troublesome for us (Army). We have at least 500+ attempted attacks a day, and that is on a little training post (Ft. Lee).
Getting Military servers to crash would be one crime I could think of... With the war going on crashing the systems that area operating across the pond would hurt a little bit...
\"Nuts!\"- Commanding General 101st Airborne Division Dec 1944 in answer to German request that he surrender Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge
Life has a certian flavor for those who have fought and risked it all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.- John Stewart Mill
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November 21st, 2003, 01:54 PM
#8
OK a few more thoughts........
I recommend that you look on the computer as the MO (modus operandi), that is, the methodology or way a criminal works. What I am saying is that the computer is a "medium", rather than a "weapon".
Try doing a Google search for "Tempest" and "nonstop", "non-stop".............I am not being lazy, I have to be very careful of what I say Let's just say that will give you some info on the "Langley" side of things (MI5/MI6 over here, Mossad to the Israelis etc....)
"Wardriving" could also be brought into the topic, perhaps?......insecure wireless networks.
Otherwise:
1. Personal fraud
2. Corporate fraud
3. Identity theft
4. Industrial Espionage
5. Espionage/Spying
6. Drug trafficking
7. Child Pornography
8. Terrorism
Those are the most obvious?
Good luck, and, as already offered, please feel free to contact me personally and I will help you as best I can within the restraints placed on me by our Official Secrets Acts.......I have seen 2 guys get 11 years each recently, one on a site I was at at the time
Cheers
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November 21st, 2003, 04:36 PM
#9
I don't know if it's posted already but:
- economical damage by DoS / DDos (Denial of Service / Distributed Denail of Service) for example smurf attacks.
- email abuse: stalking, spam, email bombers, mail server DoS, ...
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November 21st, 2003, 05:19 PM
#10
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