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FC: G8 update: Global Internet Project report, more news from Paris
From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 19:07:19 -0400
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To: declan () well com, farber () cis upenn edu cc: mmaney () us ibm com, tburton () itaa org Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 00:34:34 -0400 Subject: New Global Internet Project report on cyber-security You might want to check out the new Global Internet Project report n cyber-security, available at www.gip.org. It was released in Paris on Tuesday in conjunction with the G-8 conference on cyber-crime. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Michael R. Nelson Director, Internet Technology and Strategy IBM Corporation 1301 K St., N.W., Suite 1200 Washington, DC 20005
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From: "Thomas Leavitt" <thomasleavitt () hotmail com> To: declan () well comSubject: Re: FC: G8 nations bar public from debate, Europeans want 1-year recordsDate: Tue, 16 May 2000 18:16:17 PDT Lunacy of the highest order.If you want to drive use of hard to break encryption through the roof, have everyone's communications and web traffic stored in the clear in multiple locations throughout the internet...Thomas
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From: "Heasman, David" <David.Heasman () seacontainers com>
To: "'declan () well com'" <declan () well com>
Subject: RE: G8 nations bar public from debate, Europeans want 1-year reco
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Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 10:09:27 +0100
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Sorry to inject a note of cynicism here, Declan, but of the group
of 8
countries battling in "secret" to combat "cybercrime", two at
least,
Japan and Russia, have incorporated organised crime into the fabric
of the state
and in Italy & France big crime isn't far from the centres of power
either.
So these meetings and deliberations are being kept secret from who
exactly?
regards
Dave Heasman
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Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 11:35:17 -0700 (PDT) From: "Kevin L. Poulsen" <klp () securityfocus com> To: declan () well com Subject: Thin Consensus veils Conflict at G8 Thin Consensus veils Conflict at G8 Government and industry delegates from around the world agree that cybercrime must be fought, disagree on how. By Philippe Astor May 17, 2000 11:21 AM PT PARIS (SecurityFocus.com News) -- The dialogue may be under way between industry and government to combat cybercrime, but some technical and political drawbacks emerged openly during the last two days of the G8 conference here. The G8 countries -- Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States -- emphasized the importance of creating "an environment that fosters the growth of electronic commerce by balancing economic, privacy, human rights, social and other concerns with the need to maintain public safety and confidence in cyberspace," reads a slim two-page public statement issued at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday. "The ability to locate and identify Internet criminals... is critical to deterring, investigating and prosecuting crime that has an electronic component." But this supposed consensus was not reflected in interviews with the industry and government delegates who occasionally broke with the closed- door arrangement of the conference. ... http://www.securityfocus.com/news/37
******** http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,36398,00.html G8 Hems and Haws on Cybercrime Reuters 7:00 a.m. May. 17, 2000 PDTPARIS -- The world's main industrialized countries called for faster, more innovative responses to cybercrime on Wednesday after consulting tech industries about viruses,
hacker attacks, and Internet fraud.The Group of Eight (G8) countries found no quick fix for "Love Bug"-type attacks but stressed they wanted to crack down on digital crime rapidly spreading across the globe, but
without stifling the growth of electronic commerce. ********* http://www.foxnews.com/world/0516/i_ap_0516_103.sml Chirac urges G8 nations to intensify cooperation to fight cybercrime 7.21 p.m. ET (2332 GMT) May 16, 2000 By Deborah Seward, Associated Press FOOTNOTE: PARIS (AP) The world's leading industrial nations must narrow the differences in national laws to combat cybercriminals who use loopholes to launch global Internet attacks, French President Jacques Chirac said Tuesday. The Internet is "testing our laws and our institutions,'' Chirac said in a speech to government and private officials attending a Group of Eight conference on cybercrime. "Given the enormous progress of technology, governments and parliaments must harmonize our national laws with regard to the Internet,'' Chirac said. "We must overcome the obstacles of differences in national legislation. Criminals take advantage of these. They exploit the loopholes.'' ********* http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/sci/tech/newsid_748000/748597.stm Tuesday, 16 May, 2000, 17:58 GMT 18:58 UK Action on cyber crime 'too slow' By BBC News Online internet reporter Mark WardGovernments are moving too slowly to tackle the rising tide of cyber crime, according to lobby groups
and industry bodies at the G8 conference on computer criminals.High-tech companies say governments will need their help to beat fraudsters, virus writers, malicious hackers and perpetrators of other cyber crimes. But the firms are resisting attempts to turn them into
surrogate police forces and say governments need to do more by themselves.On the second day of the conference in Paris, French Interior Minister Jean-Pierre Chevenement said governments and high-tech firms should "co-regulate" the internet to ensure that there are no safe
havens for computer criminals.A new French agency to fight cybercrime starts operating today, but it is over nine months since it
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