So lets begin a journey to explore the hugely unexplored avenues of a fancy world called the cyber space. Tell me how you would feel if you wake up and log into your Facebook account just to know if everybody else in this world has woken up or not, the same you have been doing religiously for months now. But today a bolt from the blue awaits you. You can’t access your account, some weird irritating error ‘Invalid user-name or password’ makes life difficult for you! I’m sure it would be frustrating not to be able to tell the world that you have woken up. But wait! The trouble may have just begun. What if some Tom, Dick or Harry, who hold some medieval era grudges against you has HACKED into your account and now has access to everything that you called ‘personal’? What if he tweaks your relationship status to ‘it’s complicated’? That would really piss off your girl. Wouldn’t it? What if he messages your Dad, ‘I wanna become a NAZI!!’? Well, I would suggest you find yourself some part-time job coz you’ll be short on pocket money for a few months now!
Hacking is just the tip of the iceberg. Cyber crimes go really deep and dark. From banking fraud to credit card information theft. From cyber terrorism to IPR violations. And yes, worm attacks and ahh… well… yeah… pornography! You would surely not like yourself pictured with Anna Nicole Smith with an advertising strip running below ‘Meet the new Bed Stars!’
Cyber crimes can be categorized as-
The computer as a target- using a computer to attack other computers.
Example- Hacking, Virus/Worm Attacks, DOS Attack etc.
The computer as a weapon- using a computer to commit real world crimes.
Example- Cyber Terrorism, IPR Violations, Credit Card Frauds, EFT Frauds, pornography etc.
To counter these Toms, Dicks and Harrys; a league of good men have formulated some rules dictating the terms and conditions for human interaction with the cyber space, these rules have come to be called as ‘Cyber Laws’. Cyber law is a term used to describe the legal issues related to the use of communications technology, particularly cyber space i.e. The Internet!
Cyber laws are a desperate attempt to bring some order to the jungle raj of cyber space. And trust me; bringing order to chaos has never been that easy. It is a less distinct field of law in a way that property or contract are as it is an amalgamation of many legal fields, including intellectual property, privacy, freedom of expression and jurisdiction. In a gist, it’s an attempt to integrate the challenges presented by human activity on the internet with the legacy system of the laws.
So now you have a little idea about what you should and what you must not do on net, as it has been the thumb rule of nature, for every evil there is some good. In this way, for every crime there will be a law, it’s your responsibility to remain on the safe side of it.
Have I ignited any flame of excitement in you about the Cyber Laws? Would you like to know whats and hows of the Cyber Laws? Then stay hooked to this space, I’ll be back with more
Hacking is just the tip of the iceberg. Cyber crimes go really deep and dark. From banking fraud to credit card information theft. From cyber terrorism to IPR violations. And yes, worm attacks and ahh… well… yeah… pornography! You would surely not like yourself pictured with Anna Nicole Smith with an advertising strip running below ‘Meet the new Bed Stars!’
Cyber crimes can be categorized as-
The computer as a target- using a computer to attack other computers.
Example- Hacking, Virus/Worm Attacks, DOS Attack etc.
The computer as a weapon- using a computer to commit real world crimes.
Example- Cyber Terrorism, IPR Violations, Credit Card Frauds, EFT Frauds, pornography etc.
To counter these Toms, Dicks and Harrys; a league of good men have formulated some rules dictating the terms and conditions for human interaction with the cyber space, these rules have come to be called as ‘Cyber Laws’. Cyber law is a term used to describe the legal issues related to the use of communications technology, particularly cyber space i.e. The Internet!
Cyber laws are a desperate attempt to bring some order to the jungle raj of cyber space. And trust me; bringing order to chaos has never been that easy. It is a less distinct field of law in a way that property or contract are as it is an amalgamation of many legal fields, including intellectual property, privacy, freedom of expression and jurisdiction. In a gist, it’s an attempt to integrate the challenges presented by human activity on the internet with the legacy system of the laws.
So now you have a little idea about what you should and what you must not do on net, as it has been the thumb rule of nature, for every evil there is some good. In this way, for every crime there will be a law, it’s your responsibility to remain on the safe side of it.
Have I ignited any flame of excitement in you about the Cyber Laws? Would you like to know whats and hows of the Cyber Laws? Then stay hooked to this space, I’ll be back with more