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CYBERCRIME - REALITY AND
PERSPECTIVES
Adriana TUDORACHE
Adriana TUDORACHE
PhD. Student Assistant Lecturer,
Faculty of Judicial, Social and
Political Sciences, “Lower Danube”
University of Galati, Romania
Address: Galați, Str. Roșiori Nr.4, Bl.
Br 16a, Sc.1, Ap. 24
Tel: 0743786052
E-mail: ruvia_0777@yahoo.com
Abstract
Law specialists do not consider a
novelty the fact that currently we are in
full swing of a new criminal phenomenon,
namely computer crime or cybercrime.
The vulnerability of the network-based
computer systems and implicitly based on
the Internet is much higher nowadays than
the vulnerability of the previous systems.
This statement can be justified primarily
by the volume of information which is
much greater than in other systems (this
year 4 Exabytes of unique information are
estimated to be generated, meaning a
greater volume than the pure information
which has been generated over the last
5000 years).
The new computer civilization is based
on the information availability and
accessibility (specialists estimated that the
articles published within one week in New
York Times journal contain more
information than a person who lived in the
18th century could have found out during
their entire existence).
The present paper tackles and focuses
on the impact that the emergence and
development of information systems has
had on the criminal law theory and
practice, the way in which the
"traditional” legal rules and regulations
that are reported to the existence of
material world have to cover new
situations and aspects related to the birth
of the virtual space, the existence of nontangible
assets whose legal protection is
required to be provided by the
community.
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