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computer crime
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(legal)computer crime - Breaking the criminal law by use of a computer.

See also computer ethics, software law.

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Groups, such as the United Nations, the 08, the Council of Europe, the OECD, and Interpol, each have delineated confidentiality, integrity, and availability offenses as forming the minimum basis of proscribed computer criminal behavior.
Only after the appearance of the movie Wargames in 1983, in which Matthew Broderick portrays a teenager with a modem who breaks into Defense Department computers and almost starts World War III, did the term come to mean someone who was a computer criminal.
In 1989, he helped to capture and convict the elusive computer criminal Kevin Mitnik.
 
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