This paper aims to establish an interface between the concern that involves the inherent dangers of informatics resources applied to courts and modern social risk theory. Admitting Brazilian courts informatization as a phenomenon of our time, our intent is to contextualize risk as much more than a transversal concern, but a paradigm of our days, once adopted the reflexive modernity concept as conceived by Ulrich Beck, where the trust and social aggregation bonds (specially Giddens’s expert systems) melt. An analysis is specially made about the global risks to
which we are exposed while dedicating part of our collective relations administration to computer resources, virtual resources (with emphasis on a paper by Josh Van Loon).