Do you have a computer law in your municipality? Your state? We have computer law in our state the FBI is in charge of computer crimes, they are the ones trained on computer crimes and how to handle them. In Utah you don’t really hear to much about it, other states have computer laws that are more widely heard of. We do have a computer crime law and it is considered a felony in the state of Utah. Is anyone in your police department trained specifically in computer crime investigation? If so, where was this training obtained? I would assume we do have trained officers who deal specifically with computer crimes in the state of Utah. We also have a team of FBI agents who also deal with computer crimes here in the state. They would be trained at a training facility or possibly even have a college degree in computer technology and one of our colleges. Do you have a computer? If so, how do you store you information? I do have a computer, my information is stored on floppy disks, as well as a back up hard drive and the original hard rive on my computer. Most computers come with a hard drive installed on it you can also buy back up hard drives if your hard drive is full. You can also buy a zip drive to store other information on. What type of computer crime, which do you think is most serious? Some computer crimes I think are most serious would be fraud, identity theft, financial fraud, and embezzlement. Some other crimes I would think would be serious are online pornographic sites that have online criminals who commit rape. Those are all crimes that can be committed by using a computer as a weapon. Of all the various of computer crime, which do you think is the most serious? I think out of all of them Identity theft would be the one that is the most serious and can be the one that does the most damage to a person future, credit and finances. If somebody steals your identity they can have access to all your information online, all your passwords that are saved and anything else stored on your computer can all be erased or stolen from you.
Do you have a computer law in your municipality? Your state? We have computer law in our state the FBI is in charge of computer crimes, they are the ones trained on computer crimes and how to handle them. In Utah you don’t really hear to much about it, other states have computer laws that are more widely heard of. We do have a computer crime law and it is considered a felony in the state of Utah. Is anyone in your police department trained specifically in computer crime investigation? If so, where was this training obtained? I would assume we do have trained officers who deal specifically with computer crimes in the state of Utah. We also have a team of FBI agents who also deal with computer crimes here in the state. They would be trained at a training facility or possibly even have a college degree in computer technology and one of our colleges. Do you have a computer? If so, how do you store you information? I do have a computer, my information is stored on floppy disks, as well as a back up hard drive and the original hard rive on my computer. Most computers come with a hard drive installed on it you can also buy back up hard drives if your hard drive is full. You can also buy a zip drive to store other information on. What type of computer crime, which do you think is most serious? Some computer crimes I think are most serious would be fraud, identity theft, financial fraud, and embezzlement. Some other crimes I would think would be serious are online pornographic sites that have online criminals who commit rape. Those are all crimes that can be committed by using a computer as a weapon. Of all the various of computer crime, which do you think is the most serious? I think out of all of them Identity theft would be the one that is the most serious and can be the one that does the most damage to a person future, credit and finances. If somebody steals your identity they can have access to all your information online, all your passwords that are saved and anything else stored on your computer can all be erased or stolen from you.
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