Using legal tools to fight increasing data theft from civil-use computers in China may come true if the law is passed for its second reading by the top legislature, the National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee.
As the existing Criminal Law stipulates punishment only for intruding into networks of governments, national defense or leading science sectors; or altering the functions of personal computer systems, it is necessary for the country to have such a law.

Under the new law, hackers who steal data or manipulate a huge number of computers will face jail terms of up to seven years, so do those who offer intruders software or tools. The proposed penalties also apply to Chinese hackers who steal information from foreign computers. Read more…

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Shi Xiaohong, chief technician with 360.cn, a leading online safety company in China, expressed his opinion of the matter as follows.

Hackers usually do not change or cancel the information, but resell it to other people to make profits. In this way, they fall outside the ambit of the current law. To put Trojans, most of which are used to steal information or remotely control the computers, on a certain web page is the most common way to steal information from a personal computer. Read more…

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