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cybercrimealso known as computer crimeAny use of a computer as an instrument to further illegal ends, such as committing fraud, trafficking in child pornography and intellectual property, stealing identities, or violating privacy. Cybercrime, especially through the Internet, has grown in importance as the computer has become central to commerce, entertainment, and government. The international nature of cybercrimes has led to international cyberlaws.
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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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