(b) by any means to usurp the normal operation of an electronic system or electronic network; “damage” includes modifying, altering, deleting, erasing, suppressing, changing location or making data temporarily unavailable, halting an electronic system or disrupting the networks; “data” includes representations of facts, information or concepts that are being prepared or have been prepared in a form suitable for use in an electronic system including electronic program, text, images, sound, video and information within a database or electronic system; “decryption” means the process of transforming or unscrambling encrypted data from its unreadable and incomprehensible format to its plain version; “electronic” means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, optical, biometric, electrochemical, wireless, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities; "electronic database" means a representation of information, knowledge, facts, concepts or instructions in text, image, audio, video that are being prepared or have been prepared in a formalised manner or have been produced by an electronic system or electronic network and are intended for use in an electronic system or electronic network; “electronic device” is any hardware that accomplishes its functions using any form or combination of electrical energy; “electronic system” means an electronic device or a group of interconnected or related devices, one or more of which, pursuant to a program, performs automatic processing of data and includes an electronic storage medium; “encryption” means the process whereby data is transformed or scrambled from its plain version to an unreadable or incomprehensible format, regardless of the technique utilized for such transformation or scrambling and irrespective of the medium in which such data occurs or can be found for the purposes of protecting such data; “function” includes logic, control, arithmetic, deletion, storage and retrieval and communication or telecommunication to, from or within an electronic system; “malicious code” means an electronic program or a hidden function in a program that infects data with or without attaching its copy to a file and 6

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