CS 192 Chapter 11-13

1. What is computer crime?

• Computer crime or cybercrime is a form of crime where the Internet or computers are used as a medium to commit crime. Issues surrounding this type of crime have become high-profile, particularly those surrounding hacking, copyright infringement, child pornography, and child grooming. It is refers to any crime that involves a computer and a network.

2. Give an example of a computer crime not stated in the Computer Ethics blog.

• Making and digitally distributing child pornography. Child pornography refers to images or films (also known as child abuse images) and in some cases writings depicting sexually explicit activities involving a child; as such, child pornography is a record of child sexual abuse. Abuse of the child occurs during the sexual acts which are recorded in the production of child pornography, and several professors of psychology state that memories of the abuse are maintained as long as visual records exist, are accessed, and are "exploited perversely."

3. Visit this site. http://www.crime-research.org/news/09.07.2008/3443/
This is the site that features the first Hacking crime being filed in the Philippines.
Question:
What is stated in section 33a of Republic Act 8792?

• As our technology progress more, people around it and are affected or using it progress in terms of using it and developing it. But there are some people who are accessing the internet or the computer without legal authorization. Some are making applications that will cause damage, accessing accounts without legal permission, or even by distributing pornography of a child photo, etc. These acts are computer crimes. But the most common computer crime is the one called hacking. Hacking is an act of penetrating computer systems to gain knowledge about the system and how it works. Hacking could be fixing programs until they work, modifying the computer hardware to make it work better or tuned to the person's wishes or breaking into secure systems to determine their weaknesses and to explore them. Hacking is a punishable offense under section 33a of Republic Act 8792.

4. In Visayas State University, there is an office that deals with protecting the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) of those who publish their intellectual output works. What is this office that caters with IPR concerns? Who is the head of this office?

• The office of the Director for Research & Extension (ODREx)
• Headed by Dr. Othello Capuno