Cyber crimes are so much obvious that they are checked by law. But the question is: who is going to check that i.e. what is the crime or what is the intended. Unfortunately there is no proper way to check the extents of these so called cyber crimes. Mostly cyber crimes include spamming, spoofing, cyber stocking, fishing, virus propagation and malicious code. As it is described earlier that are these are declared crimes, so it should be precisely defined the proper definitions. It also should be decided as if these are crimes or not. Spoofing generally means to hide the identification. critically speaking the spoofing includes sms spoofing, ip spoofing, Mac spoofing, email spoofing, websites spoofing etc. in sms spoofing one hides his cellular no. or may provide a wrong no. in ip spoofing while surfing the internet one hides or provides the wrong ip address for whatever he or she intended to. Similar is the case with Mac address. The email spamming and spoofing is very extensively practiced. It is done by wrong or hidden email address. Web site spoofing is another Claus of spoofing. To provide the seemingly similar name instead of the original name is called web spoofing. Now let us see what are the intentions of these cyber crimes (so called) specifically spoofing. There could be many reasons may be it is intentionally or un-intentionally. One thing is wrong for one person at the same time it is not as wrong as for another person. There are always been different aspects of a same thing. One may use spoofing in order to hide his\her identity to do some destructing activities like fishing, spamming, wrong URL, junk mailing, and other kind op cyber crimes. This is the intention to not to be traced. But on the other side one may use spoofing in order to use a single ip address for many users i.e. sharing of one ip address for more than one user. It seems to be a positive use of the spoofing. Every wireless device that is WiFi compatible has its own unique code or Mac address; they cover them so people don't steal their code. There is a chat application in Perl that used fake ARP requests as the transport called ARPArp (ARP Anonymous Relay Protocol). It's cool for interoffice chatting without any possibility of remote detection (since you're necessarily limited to the local network).
Now let us see that is it more useful or more harmful at all. It is use full in the sense that it provides the facility to use one ip for more users. But this use is also a root cause of many cyber crimes as one can not be traced in this case. If every one is assigned with a unique ip then every one committing a cyber crime could be checked.
concluding all this i recommend that spoofing is not as big issue that it should be declared as a crime.because all hackers,spammers,virus propogator did not necesserly use spoofing.there are hundured more ways to do so.moreover if we manage to provide a unique id to alll users(which is very difficult ),even then spoofing is possible.so what for punising the wrong person who did not even know about spoofing at all. i tink this is injustice to declare it a crime and to punish for it.because most of the time the innocent people get caught.which is ,in every law,WRONG. And laws are for protection but not for disturbing innnocent people. So consequently spoofing is more useful than it is harmful.
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