‘Criminals are drawn to the Internet because the cloak of cyberspace is virtually impenetrable’. Discuss the statement.
Crime and violence is a normal phenomenon that happens in the Internet. Internet is a place that allows people come together as a community. Well, this is an attractive place for criminals to focus attention because it offered unique opportunities feature. It also no physical evidence in online and let the criminals has a chance to drawn to the Internet. People will not check where you are and who you are in this visual world. Therefore, some people might lay others in the Internet because they know that people will not checking them and they have the freedom to do whatever in the Internet. According to Qurarantiello, computer crimes will happen if any illegal act in which knowledge of the computer technology is use to commit the offense. This means that people have the knowledge of the computer and base on the knowledge might carry out the crimes and illegal it. According to Carter, computer crimes categorize as computer as target, instruments of crime, an incidental to other crimes and crimes associated with prevalence of computer. Criminals can just use language or search information in the Internet to create crimes. Therefore, Internet is one of the way that let them did the crime.
Hacker is the most popular crime that happens in the Internet. Criminals would like to act as hacker for the purpose access others people’s account to get to know that the person’s information. They are using their knowledge of computer to hack into other users account to get the information or stole people’s identity and may give fake identity or information of the user to the user’s friends. It is chances to the hacker to cheat people as the user’s friend do not aware on it. Some more, hacker may use the user’s account to cheat people because they know that people are not know them and this is only in the visual world that is let people unable to find out their real identity. Internet could protect their identity and do not let people to know about the criminals. The most important is that they no need to take the responsibility on the things that they did in the Internet. In the opposite, the criminal would think that if they did crime in the real world, it may be find out by the police or people and they need to take the responsibility in the end. Therefore, Internet is the cloak to them because it is virtually impenetrable and let them have more chances to do the crime in this visual world.
Besides that, criminal may use some technique to cheat the user and login to their e-banking account. They could use the user’s user name and password to login to their banking account. For an example, the technique that tells the user that their account cannot transfer money to make a payment of the housing loan or car loan. This might let the criminal to login to the user’s account and transfer the money to their personal account. Well, Internet is the most easily way to them to do it. Because of this, people cannot find out the criminals and just let the criminal free for the punishment of the law. They no need to grab in the reality and may get the money easily from the internet.
There is much information that provide in the Internet. For an example, criminals can just only use the Internet to search on the pornography that provide in the Internet. There are many cases happen too. Criminals are using the fake identity to cheat love and money in the Internet. They might provide the fake identity and try to cheat people in the Internet to be their friend even is in the relationship. They might use the web cam to capture down the pornography’s picture of their relationship partner and threaten them to give money. Criminals is to facilitate an escape and they no need take responsibility on it because people do not know the criminals and they no need to treat others with the truth heart.
As a conclusion, criminals are drawn to the Internet because the cloak of cyberspace is virtually impenetrable. This is because that Internet may protect their identity and to facilitate an escape of necessary.
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