Cyber Crime Law Separating Myth From Reality
Remember Bruce Willis, the main protagonist in the fourth installment of the
Die Hard series last summer? Live Free or Die Hard depicts Willis as the New 
York police department detective John McClane who is commissioned to capture a
gang of ‘cyber terrorists’ intent on shutting down the entire world’s internet.
In today’s increasingly volatile world of mobile activated bombs and websites of
various militant groups, it is not hard to imagine the Die Hard scenario
materializing in real life as well.
One of the most fascinating aspects of modern technology is how it has
penetrated every scope and strata of society. Everyone from the uneducated
mechanic to the high-profile chief executive officer of a firm now carries a
mobile and is aware of what a computer is. This infiltration of technology in
our communities has, by and large, proved to be beneficial. But like every other
good thing, technology too can be exploited. This exploitation, among other
things, has resulted in certain crimes being committed through or against
computers, their affiliated networks and the information contained within them.
Thus, came about the neologism of cyber crime.
Even though the term is now widely used in law circles, disagreements are
aplenty regarding what actually entails cyber crime. President of Naavi.org,
India’s largest cyber law information portal suggests that the term is a
misnomer. “The concept of cyber crime is not radically different from that of
conventional crime,” says in a report on the portal, “Both include conduct
whether act or omission, which cause breach of rules of law and [are]
counterbalanced by the sanction of the state. Cyber crime may be said to be [one
of] those species, of which, the genus is conventional crime, and where either
the computer is an object or subject of the conduct constituting crime,”
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There have been phenomenal advancements in technology. It has come a long way! Who doesn’t own a mobile phone? Even cabbies and rickshaw drivers use it.
When I saw ‘Die Hard,’ I was quite scared by just imagining the state of world, if the situation similar to the movie arises in reality.