Cyberspace Crime - Week of October 14, 21 1996
Schedule
- Monday. Holiday.
- Wednesday. Scott Charney, Chief, Computer Crime Unit, Department of
Justice
- Monday. Don Delaney, New York State Police
- Wednesday. No class.
Required Reading
- Rights
& Responsibilities, Chapter 5: Electronic Vandalism
- Cavazos and Morin, Chapter 7: Cyber-Crimes: Pitfalls for the Unwary
Traveler
- Michelle Slatalla and Joshua Quittner, Masters of Deception: The
Gang that Ruled Cyberspace, Harper Collins, 1994. Story of rise and
fall of a famous hacker gang and their rival gang, the Legion of Doom.
Recommended Reading
- Dorothy
E. Denning, "Crime and Crypto on the Information Superhighway,"
J. Criminal Justice Education, 1995.
- Staff
Statement, U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Hearings
on Security in Cyberspace, June 5, 1996
- Richard Power, Current and Future Danger: A CSI Primer on Computer
Crime and Information Warfare (on reserve in Blommer library, 3rd floor
of Reiss).
- Peter J. Denning, ed., Computers Under Attack: Intruders, Worms,
and Viruses, Addison-Wesley, 1990. Collection of articles on intruders,
viruses, worms, countercultures, and social, legal, and ethical implications.
- Hafner and John Markoff, Cyberpunk, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
Story of the computer underground and three of its famous hackers.
- Cliff Stoll, The Cuckoo's Egg, Pocket Books, 1990. Story about
a system manager who tracked a spy ring reporting to the KGB.
- Bruce
Sterling, The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier,
Bantam Books, 1992. Story about hackers, cops, and civil libertarians
on the electronic frontier.
- Tsutomu Shimomura with John Markoff, Takedown, Hyperion, 1996.
Questions
- Write down 2 questions to ask each of the guest speakers.
- What are the key claims of the authors?
- What specific crimes did MOD members commit?
- How were they caught?
- What were theirvalues and social structure?
- What difficulties arise in detecting, investigating, and prosecuting
cyberspace crimes?