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

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.