Abstract
Among rapidly developing areas of criminal law, computer crime holds particular fascination for the public mind. Whether because of the magnitude of the threatened harms, the potential for Orwellian intrusion into private lives, or perhaps because at some deeper level computer crime symbolizes the darker side of the high technology world in which we live, computer crime attracts a level of attention that makes it unique. This has resulted in a wealth of scholarly studies and government reports' and an array of new legislation that is the subject of this Report. In recent months, the most visible examples of computer crime have involved hacking and computer viruses. One of the more notorious incidents involved Robert Morris, Jr., a Cornell graduate student, who was recently convicted under federal computer crime legislation for inserting a computer worm2 into the Apartnet com-
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