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A 14 page paper. Cybercrime is increasing every year. The costs are staggering, as much as hundreds of millions of dollars each year plus the cost to human dignity and morale. The crooks have had more tools to use than our law enforcement agencies and law enforcement has been consistently thwarted in their attempts to gain authority to use the kinds of programs and strategies that could result in capturing the criminals. That changed on September 11. The Attack on America woke up the public and the Congress and resulted in a number of new laws that give expanded authority to specific agencies to "listen" in on the Internet. This essay discusses Cybercrime and then, the issue of security versus privacy. The writer takes the position that more security is worth less privacy. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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kinds of "tools" they can use to hack into computers and obtain whatever information is there. They steal identities, they steal personal data and anything else they want. On the
other side of the issue we have law enforcement officials who have been arguing for greater authorities to tap into the Internet to trap these criminals. But, always, the issue
of privacy arises and the law enforcement agencies, like the FBI, are prohibited from expanded search authority. That changed on September 11. The Attack on America woke up the public
and the Congress and resulted in a number of new laws that give expanded authority to specific agencies to "listen" in on the Internet. This essay discusses Cybercrime and
then, the issue of security versus privacy. The writer takes the position that more security is worth less privacy. Cybercrime "The potential harm caused by an identity thief
using the Internet is exponential" (McCarthy, 2000). Identity theft has become a serious threat to anyone but especially to those who use the Internet. Identity fraud is also rampant on
the Internet (McCarthy, 2000). Identity fraud means that a criminal is using information about someone else to make purchases on the Internet (McCarthy, 2000). In 1995, there were 8,806 arrests
for identity fraud, in 1997, that number rose to 9,455 (McCarthy, 2000). The total losses from these crimes jumped from $442 million to $745 million over the same two years
(McCarthy, 2000). The types of crimes that are committed over the Internet is not limited to identity fraud, they include pornography, terrorism, embezzlement, theft, stalking and a variety of
other crimes (Solutions, 2001). How to reduce the incidence of cyberspace crimes is an issue of heated debate between the government and other groups; the government believes that "lack of
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