a crime is a crime --- I consider definitions of cyber crime still to be lacking since they all differ from "regular" crime in stating that in the case of "cyber" there has to be a computer or network involved. That means that a crime is still defined using the normal nomenclature of a country: cybercrime is when that "crime" is perpetrated using a computer, which in most cases is not accurate. Also, this broad definition would even consider a cybercrime when a person throws a PC into a window to robe a convenience store? My example is an exageration of course...

Source author: Carlos García Delgrado cgarciad@sre.gob.mx