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Electronic documents and computer crime
Wednesday, 2 June 2004 15:58 ESTNowadays it is hard to find a person who haven't heard about e-mail, wire money transfer, webpages on the Internet, SMS-messages, SIM-cards, electronic notebooks, files, digital signatures, computer software, data bases, electronic security, digital photo, digital video and audio record. Electronic documents became part of our life. Along with e-documents the number of so-called "combined documents" created using computer technologies and containing typewritten, hand-written and electronic requisites. These documents crowd out usual paper documents starting from civil passports, identity cards, permits approving access to secured object or depository and ending with banknotes and property documents.
According to the Central Bank of the Russian Federation there were more than 10 million of bank cards at the beginning of 2002. But card holders often use not cards as such but they usually enter electronic requisites in ATM or computer. At once they are protection measures from forgery and according to the current law belong to confidential category (bank, service, commercial, personal secrets).
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