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Essay Archive - Computer Crime
Computer Crime
  A young man sits illuminated only by the light of a computer screen.  His
fingers dance across the keyboard.  While it appears that he is only word
processing or playing a game, he may be committing a felony.
 In the state of Connecticut, computer crime is defined as: 53a-251.  Computer
Crime
 (a) Defined.  A person commits computer crime when he violates any of the
provisions of this section.
 (b)  Unauthorized access to a computer system.  (1) A person is guilty of the
computer crime of unauthorized access to a computer system when, knowing that he
is not authorized to do so, he accesses or causes the be accessed ....
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