Which of the following are alid legal issues associated with computer crime? Select three

A.
It may be difficult to prove criminal intent.

B.
It may be difficult to obtain a trail of evidence of activities performed on the computer.

C.
It may be difficult to show causation.

D.
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) makes it easier to relate a crime to an individual.

Explanation:
EDI makes it more difficult to tie an individual to transactions since EDI involves computer-tocomputer data interchanges and this makes it more difficult to trace the originator of some
transactions. *Answer “It may be difficult to prove criminal intent” is a valid legal issue since it may

be very difficult to prove criminal intent by a person perusing computer files and then causing
damage to the files. The damage may have not been intentional. *Answer “It may be difficult to
obtain a trail of evidence of activities performed on the computer” describes the situation of trying
to track activities on a computer where the information is volatile and may have been destroyed. *
In answer “It may be difficult to show causation”, common law refers to causation of the criminal
act. Causation is particularly difficult to show in instances where a virus or other malicious code
erases itself after causing damage to vital information.