play around on your computer. You turn it on and then start up, you

start calling people with your modem, connecting to another world,

with people just like you at a button press away. This is all fine

but what happens when you start getting into other peoples computer

files. Then it becomes a crime, but what is a computer crime really,

obviously it involves the use of a computer but what are these crimes.

Well they are: Hacking, Phreaking, & Software Piracy.

To begin I will start with Hacking, what is hacking. Hacking is

basically using your computer to "Hack" your way into another. They

use programs called scanners which randomly dials numbers any

generating tones or carriers are recorded. These numbers are looked

at by hackers and then used again, when the hacker calls up the number

and gets on he's presented with a logon prompt, this is where the

hacking really begins, the hacker tries to bypass this anyway he knows

how to and tries to gain access to the system. Why do they do it,

well lets go to a book and see "Avid young computer hackers in their

n. 3. A certain code or dialup useful in the action of being a

phreak. (Example: "I hacked a new metro phreak last night.")"

can be alot. A stick up robber averages about $8,000 each "job", and

security that is set up to avoid this sort of happening.

things, most often make free calls. Why do they do this, " A hacker

Phreaks explore the phone system finding many different ways to do

and making several illegal copies of the same software." and this is

will not go against his fellows or narc on people who have

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Approximate Word count = 1705
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)