Cyberlaw

Legal aspects of computing are interrelated to different areas of law. Cyberlaw is a term that “encapsulates the legal issues correlated to the use of transactional, communicative and distributive aspects of networked information devices and technologies.”

When comparing with the property or contract law the Cyberlaw is less a distinct field as the domain covers many areas of law and regulations. Some of the most important topics take account of the privacy, intellectual property, jurisdiction and freedom of expression.

The internet has a unique structure and it has raised many judicial concerns. Even though it is being grounded physically with the computers or the electronic devices it is independent of the geographic location. The individuals get connected to the internet and start interacting with others and they also maintain personal information.

Any individual who has the internet connection has the prospective to reach a million of people with little to no distribution costs. In most of the countries having a conversation through the cyberspace has been another form of communication and at the same time it has been properly organized by the government.

The cyber crimes involve some of the criminal activities like theft, forgery, fraud, insult and mischief all of them are subjected to the Indian Penal Code. The cyber crimes are of two ways:

• The computer being used as a target – using one computer to attack the other computers. (DOS attacks, hacking, virus attacks etc)
• The computer being used as a weapon – using the computer to commend real world crimes. (cyber terrorism, IPR violations, pornography, credit card frauds etc)

The program acts like as it is useful but it is quiet damping. They are called as Trojans. It comes in two parts the client part and the server part. For communication purpose the TCP/IP protocol is being used but some functions of the Trojans use the UDP protocol. The program that multiplies like the viruses and passes on or spreads  from one computer to another computer is termed as worms.

Questions:

• What is meant by the privacy act of 1974?
• What is meant by Trojan attack?