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4. Additional questionnaire and evaluation
Computer Offences
The feasibility of the definition of computer offences was also tested through a
complimentary questionnaire designed for the countries represented in the European
Sourcebook Experts Group. The additional questionnaire featured the following
section on computer offences:
Offences against the confidentiality, integrity and availability of computer data and
systems: unauthorized entry into electronic systems (computers) or unauthorized use or
manipulation of electronic systems, data or software
Please indicate whether these
items are separately identifiable
in criminal law:
Yes No Remarks
Include the following:
illegal access (i.e. intentional access to a computer
system without right, e.g. ‘hacking’)
illegal interception (i.e. interception without right, made
by technical means, of non-public transmissions of
computer data)
data interference (i.e. damaging, deletion, deterioration,
alteration or suppression of computer data without right)
system interference (i.e. serious hindering without right
of the functioning of a computer system)
misuse of devices (i.e. production, sale, procurement for
use, import, or distribution of a device or a computer
password/access code)
computer fraud (i.e. deception of a computer instead of
a human being)
attempts
Exclude the following:
illegal downloading of data or programs