Computer Forgery 2. Nevada Nevada Revised Statutes Annotated 205.481 Forgery by creation, alteration or deletion of data, information, image, program, signal or sound contained in computer. Data is defined as pieces of information that exist in a variety of forms numbers or text on pieces of paper, bits and bytes stored in electronic memory, or facts stored in a person s mind. A collection of data or information stored in a computer. Types of files include text files, program files, and directory files.
Electronic mail is the transmission of messages over communications networks.
The messages can simply be notes containing text, or electronic files such as documents or pictures. In addition to text, documents can contain graphics, charts, and other computer generated objects. Computer graphics include, but are not limited to, freehand computer drawing, computer animations, and other images generated by desktop publishing programs. Forgery at common law is the false making, or materially altering, with intent to defraud, of any writing which, if genuine, might apparently be of legal efficacy, or the foundation of legal liability. But even under the common law, the Supreme Court of the United States was not satisfied that forgery was limited to the production of a writing by means of a pen.