Computer Crime

There have been many cases of child pornography on the Internet, this is mainly because people find it very easy to transfer images over the Internet without getting caught. Child pornography on the Internet has more the doubled on the Internet since 1990, an example of this is Alan Norton of Calgary who was charged of being part of an international porn ring.
Credit card fraud has caused many problems for people and for corporations that have credit information in their databases. With banks going on-line in last few years, criminals have found ways of breaking into databases and stealing thousands of credit cards and information on their clients. In the past few years thousands of clients have reported millions of transactions made on credit cards that they do not know of.
Invading privacy is a real problem with the Internet, this is one of the things that turns many away from the Internet. Now with hacking sites on the Internet, it is easy to download Electronic Mail(e-mail) readers that allows you to hack servers and read incoming mail from others. Many sites now have these e-mail readers and since then invading privacy has increased.
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