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Re: Police Face Uphill Battle Against Cyber Crime
From: Meritt James <meritt_james () BAH COM>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 09:09:29 -0500
Yup. I've been looking and would appreciate information concerning cases in which the "hacker" (*yuch* Hate that "common usage" term) has been convicted on the face of the evidence. Usually they plead guilt or get off. I've seen two convictions in the last decade worldwide, one of which got off before sentencing. Both were inside jobs. But there is one now that might provide another data point... InfoSec News wrote:
Forwarded by: Russell Coker <russell () coker com au> On Monday 15 January 2001 18:05, you wrote:http://enterprisesecurity.symantec.com/content.cfm?articleid=564&PID=1726127 REPRINTED FROM: Korea Times JAN 12, 2001 ARTICLE ID: 564 Law enforcement authorities are playing a cat-and-mouse game with computer hackers and those committing crimes in cyber space. In order to avoid police, criminals usually conduct their activities late at night or early in the morning.Are they at all serious? Are they saying that police are unable to catch criminals based on evidence unless they catch them in the act? If that was true then most criminals would escape!
[snip] -- James W. Meritt, CISSP, CISA Booz*Allen & Hamilton phone: (410) 684-6566
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