The Virtual Theft and the Illegal Use of a Communication Terminal

Abstract

The crimes characteristic of the cyber world are a serious criminal phenomenon due to the ease in camouflaging the offense, but also the cross-border character through the Internet environment. The interest to criminalize the offenses committed by computer means, as well as the offenses committed on information systems is justified in contemporary society by the unprecedented development of information technologies that extend gradually in all fields, from industry to medicine, from e-commerce and internet banking to data management platforms used by the administrations and public institutions. The paper addresses the issue of criminalizing the illegal use of a communications terminal as a prerequisite for committing cyber crimes.