"Computer Crime" Discussed · Chapter 2 33 longer is computer crime relegated to attacks against a college LAN or tele- phone infrastructure. Instead, people with a personal presence online are now the target of criminals using high-technology via the Internet. Issues with Definitions Generally, the authors discussed earlier in this chapter note a significant defi- nitional issue with the terms computer crime and cyber crime.This problem does not lay with an inability to somehow draw boundaries around what crimes would be included under computer crime, cyber crime, and so on. The problem rests with the global nature of these types of crimes--in other words, as soon as limits are placed around the term to make it relevant to a particular audience, you make broad assumptions based on the specific audi- ence, and the importance of the term is diluted. We saw this earlier in Parker's initial attempt to draw a box around computer crime. Parker put forth a rather comprehensive definition of computer crime. Casey questioned the base assumptions of the definition and noted that Parker's definition was vul-