t, authorities have had to adjust to two decades of a new crime trend by educating themselves and hiring knowledgeable computer specialist to assist them in controlling the intrusions and wrongful acts caused by cyber criminals. As more cyber crimes surface, supreme court judges will have to depend on the severity of the crime and carefully interpret the law giving the proper consequence for the illegal act. In addition, governmental control over Internet usage can only go so far. This has been noticed recently when three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati ruled in favor that computer encryption programs are a form of expression and therefore are protected by the First Amendment. Does this mean it protects virus programs and or applications that can do harm to computer information systems? Chief Judge, Boyce F. Martin Jr. of the Sixth Circuit wrote in favor stating that this protects computer programs:"Because computer source code is an expressive means for the exchange of information and ideas about computer programming, we hold that it is protected by the First Amendment” (Kiernan, 2).Shockingly, now, composers of computer programs are protected by actual case laws for reasons that it falls under free speech, and raising the possibility that restrictions on such programs may be deemed unconstitutional. If three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeal ruled that computer programming is a form of expression, then where are we headed? Certainly, we have two points of the spectrum attempting to circumvent the issue, and the other side protecting the technological epidemic. In conclusion, we clearly see the social control in our society of how our government whose interest is to protect information, contradicts itself by saying it is right to produce computer scripts or program codes that increases harm to our nation's infrastructure. Furthermore, I am convinced the crimes of tomorrow (cyber perpetrati...
