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Problem przestępczości elektronicznej
Problem of Electronic Crime

Author(s): Renata Jedlińska
Subject(s): Economy, Business Economy / Management
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: cyberspace; hacking; computer crime; craker

Summary/Abstract: The article introduce a genesis and a specificity of electronic crimes, where its specificity results among all from the fact, that the place where they are committed, is not always the same “place” in a common sense. Using the Internet, as a places of the committing an offence, is particularly dangerous due to the very high number of potential victims and problems with low detectability of crimes and its offender. The global network is reducing the effectiveness of mechanisms of the identification. The cyberspace is deprived of all physical attributes of someone's presence, so as: fingerprints, voice, image. The aim of the article is showing the range and the scale of electronic crime in the world, as well as its effects.

  • Issue Year: 126/2017
  • Issue No: 1/2
  • Page Range: 185-194
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish