TITLE

Computer Crime. A Crimefighter's Handbook

AUTHOR(S) SURNAME, FORENAME

Icove, David; Seger, Karl; VonStorch, William

Places & Countries of PUBLISHERS    YEAR
Publication

Sebastopol, CA, USA    O'Reilly & Associates    1995

PAGES    ISBN        BINDING    PRICE

xxi+437    1-56592-086-4    Pbk    

Computer Crime is taken by the authors of this book to be highly technical nerds braking into secure computers for the sake of it or just to keep the authorities in order. Our own experience under the UK's Computer Misuse Act (incorrectly described in the book as "Computer Crime Act from Great Britain") is at a much more trivial level. One case was of altering information in a supermarket computer to cause misallocation of sales. There is also little or no mention of criminal proceedings under the copyright acts as required of signatories to the Berne Convention. The format and typestyle of the book is uninspiring and seem to be a carry-over from the original FBI training manual on which it is based. Distinctly we have the impression that this is a work of authorship with the authors not having deep practical experience or being allowed access to the considerable technical expertise that must be available to the crime prevention agencies; to judge from the guilty pleas entered for

what must have been highly technical crimes. Perhaps the authorities are keeping their technologies to themselves by plea bargaining but none of this comes through in the book.

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