Computer and the law
•Sistem informasi tanpa hukum à computer crime.
•Sophisticated computer crime can be extremely complex and may be well beyond the understanding of post prosecutors, judges, and jurors.
•Legislation must be enacted and prosecution issues resolved before the criminal justice system can begin to cope with computer crime.
Illegal information processing
•The two main causes of illegal information processing are negligence and fraud. Negligence cause some one outside the organization to be unnecessarily inconvenienced, and it is usually the result of poor input /output control.
•This is a clear case of a misinterpretation of computer maxim – GIGO.
GIGO case
•The company blamed the incident on a mistake by the computer. The court stated that the people enter data and interpret output and that the people affected should be treated differently from punched cards.
•Trust in the infallibility of a computer does not constitute a defense in a court of law. This incident points out the importance of careful system design and exhaustive testing.
