Section 1 Flashcards
How many internet users are there?
3.4 billion
What percentage of the worldwide population are internet users?
46.1%
What percentage of Americans own a smartphone?
77%
How many mobile phone users are there in China and India each?
1 Billion
What percentage of American adults use Facebook?
79%
Do we live in a target rich environment?
Yes
The study of how technology changes behavior.
Technicways
Grew up with technology. Do not understand life without technology. Shaped their life.
Digital Natives
Grew up without technology. Changed their lives.
Digital Immigrants
What are three ways that computers and technology are used in crime?
Communication
Tool to commit the crime
Incidental device
Communication is one way computers and digital technology are used in crime. What are some examples?
Email Texting Phone calls Facebook Instagram Snapchat
Planning for a crime is one way that _________ is used to commit crimes.
Communication
Computers and digital technology can be used as a tool to commit the crime. An example of this is?
Breaking into something and stealing.
Starting a virus
A case series of pharmacy robberies stealing drugs and money. Got their GPS and found evidence that linked them to many more robberies across many states. This digital device was ________________, but the evidence was used in a good way to put people in jail.
Incidental to the crime
Computer crime allows ________ _________.
Anonymous Communication
Reddit will allow you to create a user profile that has little to no real life information so no one will know who it is. This changes peoples behavior.This is an example of what?
Anonymous Communication
Forchan is an example of what?
Anonymous Communication
What is a special section of the global internet that is not indexed by search engines like google and you need special technology to access it. For example Tore.
The Dark Web
What is a cryptocurrency that has no physical means but is just a series of numbers that exists on the internet and has value that goes up and down?
Bitcoin
Criminals love using ______ as a means of exchange because they are harder to trace as a means of exchange compared to US dollars.
Bitcoin
Some cryptocurrency is harder to trace than bitcoin which makes it easier for criminals to accept payment for services without law enforcement being able to use the money trail to track them down. True or False
True
________ have developed around different crimes and are a smaller group within a larger culture.
Subculture
What has it’s own unique values, norms, traditions, rituals, language, beliefs, and goals?
Subcultures
Does digital piracy have a subculture?
Yes
Who is seen as tiger in the subculture and who is seen as lower?
People who create pirated goods are seen as higher. People who take are seen as lower.
Child porn subculture have their own ways of communicating and dealing with each other. True or False
True
Reddit can link stuff to you based on your IP address. The Dark Web cannot because the service you use to access it is proxied. True or False
True
Is Technical knowledge needed to commit computer crimes?
Depends on the crime you are talking about but NO not for the majority of crimes.
Difficult or Easy?
Crime where you have to create your own malware?
Difficult
Difficult or Easy?
Sending Span
Easy
What is something that society owns upon and doesn’t like but you cannot be punished formally for it by the criminal justice system?
Deviance
AshleyMadison.com dating website for people who are married. Society frowns upon this but it is not a crime. True or False
True
What is deviant and criminal in one country may or may not be deviant in another country?
True
Victim, offender, and scene of the crime can all be in different jurisdictions which make it harder to investigate. True or False
True
Computer criminals love to form groups and move up in status. This is the reason for having what ?
Hacking groups
What type of groups are anonymous, not well defined, semi-open group that anyone who wants in the group can get in?
Hacking group
Legion of doom
Hacking group
Criminal Hacker, active in the 80s and 90s, never made a dime of of his crimes but hacking he stole information and got a trophy for his hacks.
Kevin Mitnick
Criminal Hacker who’s downfall was he was constantly hacking with other people and he wanted to beat them and as soon as two people know something it is no longer a secret and he got caught.
Kevin Mitnick
