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Login to view the rest of this paper. Introduction:Laws are
established for many crimes. Theft is as old as the bible and
sanctions against it are also as old. But computer hacking, a
new crime only some 50 years old at most, is being seen as a
break and enter.1 It still has to be defined in comparison to
existing crimes. It is really an invasion of privacy. The
Canadian Criminal Code section 342.1 prohibits accessing a
computer without authorisation. The question is does this law
work and are those breaking this law getting the right
punishment? History: Bruce Sterling, a computer writer, traces
computer hacking back to the pranks that telephone switch boys
used in 18782. Many histories of computer crime start with phone
freaking as the precursor to hacking. Phone freaking is stealing
long distance phone calls or other phone tricks which defraud
the phone company in a minor but clever way . There are books
such as Approaching Zero that give a hist