/* R FRINGE COMMENTARY- The North Carolina Computer Crimes Law follows, General Statutes of North Carolina, Section 14-453, adopted 1979*/ SECTION 14-453 Definitions As used in this section, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the following terms have the meanings specified: (1) "Access" means to approach, instruct, communicate with, cause input, cause output, or otherwise make use of any of the resources of a computer, computer system or computer network. (2) "Computer" means an internally programmed, automatic device that performs data processing. (3) "Computer network" means the interconnection of communication systems with a computer through remote terminals, or a complex consisting of two or more interconnected computers. (4) "Computer program" means an ordered set of data that are coded instructions or statements that when executed by a computer causes the computer to process data. (5) "Computer software" a set of computer programs, procedures and associated documentation concerned with the operation of a computer system. (6) "Computer system" means a set of related, connected or unconnected computer equipment and devices. (7) "Financial statement" /*sic*/ incudes but is not limited to any check, draft, money order, certificate of deposit, letter of credit, bill of exchange, credit card of [or] marketable security, or any electronic data processing representation thereof. /* This section is full of typos (done by them, not by R FRINGE!) First of all, they must mean "financial instrument", and the editors of the version of the North Carolina General Statutes I used tried to clean up the credit card section.*/ (8) "Property" includes but is not limited to, financial instruments, information, including electronically processed or produced data, and computer software and programs, in either machine human readable form, and any other tangible or intangible item of value. (9) "Services" includes, but is not limited to, computer time, data processing and storage functions. SECTION 16-9-93 Accessing of computers, etc., for fraudulent purposes; authorized access, alteration, destruction, etc., of computers, etc. (a) A person is guilty of a Class H felony if he willfully, directly or indirectly, accesses or causes to be accessed or attempts to access any computer, computer system, computer network, or any part thereof for the purpose of: (1) Devising or executing any scheme or artifice to defraud unless the object of the scheme or artifice is to obtain educational testing material, a false educational testing score, or a false academic or vocational grade; or, (2) Obtaining property or services other than educational testing material, a false educational testing score, or a false academic or vocational grade for himself or another, by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations or promises. (b) Any person who willfully and without authorization, directly or indirectly, accesses or causes to be accessed any computer, computer system, computer network, or any part thereof, for any purpose other than those set forth in subsection (a) above, is guilty of a misdemeanor. SECTION 14-455 Damaging computers and related materials (a) A person is guilty of a Class H felony if he willfully and without authorization, alters, damages, destroys a computer, computer system, computer network, or any part thereof. of this article shall be considered to have been committed: (b) A person is guilty of a misdemeanor if he willfully and without authorization alters, damages, or destroys any computer software, program or data residing or existing internal or external to a computer, computer system or computer network. SECTION 14-456 Denial of computer services to an authorized user Any person who willfully and without authorization denies or causes the denial of computer system services to an authorized user of such computer system services, is guilty of a misdemeanor. SECTION 14-457 Extortion Any person who verbally or by a written or printed communication, maliciously threatens to commit an act described in G.S. 14-455 with the intent to extort money or any pecuniary advantage, or with the intent to compel any person to do or refrain from doing any act against his will, is guilty of a Class H felony. Downloaded From P-80 International Information Systems 304-744-2253