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- /* Here's the Arizona Computer Crimes Law, effective in 1978, see
- section 13-2301, Arizona Revised Statutes.*/
-
- SECTION 13-2301 Definitions
-
- /* We are omitting sections A through D of this section as they
- do not relate to computers.*/
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- E. For the purposes of Section 13-2316:
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- 1. "Access" means to approach, instruct, communicate with,
- store data in, retrieve data from, or otherwise make use the
- resources of, a computer, computer system, or computer network.
-
- 2. "Computer" means an electronic device which performs
- logic, arithmetic or memory functions by the manipulations of
- electronic or magnetic impulses, and includes input, output,
- processing, storage, software, or communication facilities which
- are connected or related to a device in a system or network.
-
- 3. "Computer network" means the interconnection of
- communications lines with a computer through remote terminals, or
- a complex consisting of 2 or more interconnected computers.
-
- 4. "Computer program" means a series of instructions or
- statements, in a form acceptable to a computer, which permits the
- functioning of a computer system in a manner designed to provide
- appropriate products from such computer system.
-
- 5. "Computer software" means a set of computer programs,
- procedures, and associated documentation concerned with the
- operation of a computer system.
-
- 6. "Computer system" means a set of related, connected or
- unconnected equipment, devices and software.
-
- 7. "Financial instrument" means any check, draft, money
- order, certificate of deposit, letter of credit, bill of
- exchange, credit card or marketable security or any other written
- instrument, as defined by Section 13-2001, paragraph 7, which is
- transferable for value.
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- 8. "Property" means financial instruments, information,
- including electronically produced data, computer software and
- programs in either machine or human readable form, and anything
- of value, tangible or intangible.
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- 9. "Services" includes computer time, data processing, and
- storage functions.
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- SECTION 13-2316 Computer fraud; classification
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- A. A person commits computer fraud in the first degree by
- accessing, altering, damaging or destroying without authorization
- any computer, computer system, computer network, or any part of
- such computer, system or network, with the intent to devise or
- execute any scheme or artifice to defraud or deceive, or control
- property or services, by means of a false or fraudulent
- pretenses, representations, or promises.
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- B. A person commits computer fraud in the second degree by
- intentionally and without authorization, accessing, altering,
- damaging or destroying any computer, computer system, or computer
- network, or or data contained in a computer, computer system, or
- computer network.
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- C. Computer fraud in the first degree is class 3 felony.
- Computer fraud in the second degree is a class 6 felony.
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