PROMPT Finally, in responding to your peers’ posts, discuss an individual’s rig

PROMPT
Finally, in responding to your peers’ posts, discuss an individual’s rig

PROMPT
Finally, in responding to your peers’ posts, discuss an individual’s right to privacy when using an online communication format, such as email. What role might this play in the increased rate of identity theft? In your response, reference relevant, recent news articles.
PEER POST # 1
I remember my first computer crime! I was twelve years old and ran a fork bomb on the Linux server in my schools computer lab. This was back in the good old days, where a little black hat hacking was seen as a prank by a precocious child and not a federal crime as I’m sure it would be today. Actually I helped us out, as its quite obvious that each instance of the bash terminal ought to be running locally and NOT Directly consuming server resources — a sandbox solution was implemented and they made me promise not to do it again. This anecdote actually applies to this question pretty well and I would imagine is quite reminiscent of how most advances in computer security come about. On a larger scale then my chicanery, consider men like my hero, Kevin Mitnick. A world renowned hacker who wrote several entertaining books on the subject of hacking and eluded the FBI for many years with his use of black hat methods. Check out “the Art of invisibility,” not only for entertainment, but for many cool social engineering and telecom hacks you can use to mess with your friends.
Applying the castle doctrine to computers is kind of a new thing. Before, it could really be said that such things didn’t apply to the constitution. Our founders had no concept of internet protocols or computers yet. Thanks to this 2018 ruling that can basically be summarized as “yes, the 4th amendment applies to whats on your cell phone.”(LawfareMedia, 2022)
PEER POST # 2
In society, rules and order primarily arise as a response to crime, and this is similarly true for the field of information technology, where the development of computer security has been driven by computer crimes. As society embraced emerging telecommunications technologies, the earliest modern hackers emerged, exploiting the system to make unauthorized phone calls, as reported by SC Magazine. In response, companies began to develop methods to safeguard their systems, trade secrets, and business operations. From a broader perspective, it seems that nearly everything is safeguarded by some form of security, whether it’s intellectual property laws or physical locks. Computer crimes have evolved from simple open communications to employing advanced mathematical encryptions, biometrics, and passwords.
The Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable searches and seizures, is applicable to computer crimes in the same manner. Tracing an IP address back to an individual does not conclusively prove that they are guilty of a crime. The responsibility to prove guilt remains with the prosecutor, and without concrete evidence of the crime being committed, merely identifying an IP address is insufficient.