How to Deal With a hacker
...onveying the password through e-mail, clicking an unfamiliar or suspicious link-such as a domain name with the symbol e@f- on a web page and updating onefs account information following instructions in a note without a second thinking. No information is kept behind a locked door. As the motto says, only the paranoid survives. We can never be too careful to protect our interests in the cyberspace. Every means should be used. Choose some salted passwords instead of using the same one everywhere, install firewall software and Internet security appliances in the personal computer, and never click an unfamiliar or suspicious link in a web page or in e-mails. Too many loses have been caused by the carelessness. Without cogent support, the responsibility would be solely on the individual users of the net to fight against the hackers alone -a clearly impossible task. So legislation focused on the cybercrimes on an international level is proposed. Angry victims and agonizing computer users would rise en masse to complain to the local court or the government. But soon they may find the common law and statures in a state level are not fully equipped to solve the issues related to the cybercrimes. Many conceptions and principles are challenged. Such as the application of Personal Jurisdiction and Territorial Jurisdiction, because of the difficulty of locating the crackersf true address in the physical world, given that the account in the virtual world is an anonym and the register information could be forged. Apart from the embarrassed situation to apply Personal Jurisdiction and Territorial Jurisdiction, gwhether the electronic signals sent into an Internet service userfs computers sufficiently tangible to support a trespass cause g(Simmons, 3J. Small & Emerging Bus. L. 389.) is often discussed. International laws regulating the cyberspace with explicit provisions should be created. Since the legislation has not proved satisfied enough, the prohibition by technology is of critical importance today. The task of security keeping technology, a security mechanism which is designed to detect, prevent, or recover from a security attack, is the protection of networks and their services from unauthorized modification, interruption, interception, or fabrication. No single mechanism will provide all the services. Cryptographic techniques are the fundamental of other security mechanisms. Encryption has had a long history and is still developing. Then Firewall is necessary in todayfs networks. It serves as a doorkeeper, monitoring and controlling traffic into and out of a secure network in order to protect a network from external attacks. Also, updating the anti-virus software frequently is very important to fight against numerous computer virusesCsince the viruses maybe develop everyday. The battle between the hackers (including crackers) and the information professionals will never end. However, a closer look at the three points proposed above reveals that in the fight against hackers, we are in a passive defense. In most cases, we are attacked or at least interrupted by the hackers, and then we try to work out ways to deal with the problems. It makes sense to take more positive ways to prevent the attacks. First, computer courts and a powerful group of cyber police, electronic detectors and lawyers accomplished in both law enforcement and computer science are in urgent need. With the development of the Internet, we are confronted with a totally different world. The application of common law and the lack of computer knowledge of the law executive are in an awkward situation. And unless the legislature amended its statute, any violation of those laws would subject the violator to legal liability. So, a new kind of professionals suited both for law affairs and for computer usage is required. They know how to track the routing of the hackers, how to obtain the electronic evidence with which to charge the criminals, and how to decide whether the criminalfs defens...