Computer crime - HARASSMENT

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 HARASSMENT
 A course of conductdirected at a specific
person that causes substantial emotional
distress in such person andserves no
legitimate purpose
 Words, gestures, and actions which tend
to annoy, alarm and abuse (verbally)
another person
Harassment by stalking
 Harassment by stalking

 mental abuse (repeatedly )

 using communication technology especially
the internet to harass.
 Harassment by stalking

 False accusations
 Encouraging others to harass the victim
 Ordering goods and services
 Attack victim’s data
 False victimization
 Collect Victim’s personal information
 Arranging to meet
 Harassment by stalking

 "People still don't take cyber-stalking seriously enough," said Paul Bocij
 cyber-stalkers use several methods to avoid the police
 anonymous proxy
 install firewall
 from another country -> diferent law

The Interpol do not waste their time in “small

crime” like cyberstalking, they only get involve in
bigger crime
Online Sexual Harassment
Online Sexual Harassment

Figure 1: Comparison between Flirting and Sexual Harassment

Case
 In the latest,
65-year-old Barbara Goddard has been suffering at
the hands of an online tormentor who keeps posting
ads that direct people to her home for an evening of
casual sex.

The abuse has been going on for 18 months, and

when Goddard posted a sign on her door warning
Craigslist respondees of the set-up, her harasser
adapted, including the line "Ignore notice on front
door" in his next ad.
 Online Sexual Harassment
 Victims of (email) sexual harassment in the
workplace as one of the top five callers in
2005-6
 Normal harassment law to Online term
 Online Sexual Harassment
 Anonymous encourage
 Motive concern
 Online Sexual Harassment
 Media and journal about How to avoid online
sexual harassment
 Websites prevent user
 ISP help victims to be on track of harasser and
commit the crime
Harassment on game and forum
community
Harassment on game and forum
 someone causes different people to be
exhaushed and overtired when they activate in
online society
Ex: automatic programs create twenty
characters and use an automatic script to spam
on world channel
 use the world chatting channel to advertise
many “black” websites
Harassment on game and forum
 huge number of forum websites
 conditions to register is not strict, usually only
an email address is required
Harassment on game and forum
 not judged properly - typically ignored
 most severe punishment is just only banning
the account -> log in with another account
 forbid totally the IP -> public network using
the same IP
Harassment on game and forum
 Again the “annoy” anonymous feature

Should prepare themselves an

acknowledgement of forum’s characters and
harassment on game and online community
 Reference
 Beth Kanter, 2006, Online Sexual Harassment of a Blogher in Cambodia, <http://www.blogher.com/node/9987>
 Black's Law Dictionary,
Dictionary, 2009, Harassment Definition, < http://www.blackslawdictionary.com
http://www.blackslawdictionary.com//>
 Bocij, Paul. Cyberstalking: Harassment in the Internet Age and How to Protect Your Family. Praeger, 2004, pp. 12-13.
 O’Connell P, Oct 9th 2003, Cyberstalkers and Wordsmiths,
Wordsmiths,
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/09/technology/circuits/09diar.html?ex=1066363200&en=cb2782a521207f44&ei=5062 >
 Figure1, 2009, Factsheets: Sexual Harassment Information for Teens, New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault,
<http://www.nycagainstrape.org/survivors_factsheet_60.html >
 HaltAbuse,2008,Working to halt online abuse,
 <http://www.haltabuse.org/help/isit.shtml>
 Press S, Fighting Cyberstalking
 <http://www.jahitchcock.com/cyberstalked/skippress.htm >
 Praveen R, June 16th 2006, Sexual harassment goes electronic,TechWorld,
electronic,TechWorld, <
http://www.techworld.com/security/features/index.cfm?featureid=2600 >
 Rodney Shanks, March 26th 2009, Cybernet Harassment: No laws yet passed to slow down the growing number of cases,
Examiner.com,
 < http://www.examiner.com/x-4976-Atlanta-Blues-Examiner~y2009m3d26-Cybernet-Harassment-No-laws-yet-passed-to-
slow-down-the-growing-number-of-cases >
 Spectre, Apr 1st 2008, Rohan Forum Harassment Policy,
 <http://forum.playrohan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4218 >