Legislation passed to address computer crimes

Over the past month you could not pick up a newspaper without finding an article about the recent Denial of Service (DOS) attacks on E-commerce sites over the Internet. This increase in Internet security problems and crimes, is paving the way for tougher legislation in regards to monitoring and tracking computer hackers. We the people should ask ourselves how far we should allow the federal government to go to catch online criminals. Legislation passed to …

…governments' welfares as we become more dependent upon electronic information exchange. Computer criminals are using the Internet as a means of high-tech crimes nowadays. With this ever growing, and changing problem of computer-related theft, and vandalism, we are requiring laws allowing us to combat these crimes. However, when developing these laws, we need to make sure the lawmakers are careful not to give powers that could be misused to harm innocent citizens in the process. .