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The Computer Fraud And Abuse Act Of 1986: A Measured Response To A Growing Problem, Dodd S. Griffith
The Computer Fraud And Abuse Act Of 1986: A Measured Response To A Growing Problem, Dodd S. Griffith
Vanderbilt Law Review
Before the invention of the computer, the amount of property an individual could steal or destroy was, to some extent, determined by physical limitations. Criminals could take only as much property as they could carry or arrange to transport. For example, the average amount of money taken in a bank robbery has been estimated to be about ten thousand dollars. Crime has, however, changed with the times. A criminal can use modern technology to transfer extremely large sums of money that formerly would have been impossible to remove without detection. A 1984 study conducted by the American Bar Association Task …