Anonymous Remailers Which Strip Off The Headers From Email Messages Sent To

Anonymous remailers which strip off the headers from email messages sent to newsgroups may be used to assist in such activities.
- Deliberate and malicious attempts to indulge in the hacking or breaching of computer security of computer installations and deliberately publishing material related to such activities on web pages.
- Computer misuse by deliberately spreading pornography, child pornography or in attempts to indulge in sexual conversations with other computer users over the World Wide Web without their consent.
- Computer misuse by inciting racial hatred, inciting violence, attempting to intimidate others, inciting others towards the use of banned or addictive drugs or substances or attempts to indulge in the contempt of court etc.
- The writing and the spreading of virus software or other agents such as computer worms which can cause computer systems to malfunction. Denial of service attacks which may cause a computer not to perform its intended function may also occur as a result of excessive traffic which may be generated from other sources can result in an institution's network not performing adequately.
- Activities which may be violate sections of the Data Protection Act, 1984 of the United Kingdom or similar legislation elsewhere. Such activities may attempt to elicit personal information such as email addresses, credit card numbers, passwords or other confidential information from users by making them sign web pages, fill online forms or otherwise provide such information under the guise of various activities such as operating online businesses, conducting surveys etc. The information which is collected may be used for further malicious activities including attempts to break into personal computer or web accounts and to indulge in credit card fraud.
- Attempting to corrupt data stored on a computer system or to corrupt a database or trying to break into a secure database of the academic institution or any other external organisation in an attempt to steal, view or corrupt data which has been stored on a computer such as academic records etc.
- The downloading of copyrighted software which requires a licence and attempts to distribute such material or other copyrighted material such as music, digital images etc after cracking the protective codes. Students can spend a lot of time downloading material into peer to- peer or P2P programs similar to Kazaa, Morpheus, BearShare and Napster etc.P2P programs are readily available on the internet and easily downloadable (Feret, 2004, Pp. 5).
- Attempting to use the internet and the World Wide Web to excess in activities which are not related to academic work such as playing online games, excessive chatting, email spamming into the accounts of other users with malicious intent or to deliberately interfere in the internet activities of the other users.