CCJ 4934 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Computer Security, Grey Hat, Mens Rea
6 Jul 2016
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Popular consensus is hackers intend to commit crime- bad people who want to do bad things. Some tried computer cracker or black hat hacker. Important to understand why hackers think the way they do to address the problem. Hacker- individual with a profound interest in computes and tech that has used this knowledge to access computer systems with or without permission from system owners. Authorization is a critical element: hacking with permission is legal, without is illegal. Hacker population represents individuals with broad spectrum of personal motivations, skills and activities. Often involved in piracy: cable and satellite scamming, tv and music piracy, console game duplication, creation of p2p or peer to peer networking. Peer to peer networking: malware sometimes bundled to original file, much harder to trace o. Steal money, automate attacks, control systems remotely: marine one (obama"s military helicopter) leaked on military p2p site, now tied to huge inadvertent releases of personal info.
