(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
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