RE: Law Enforcement at Disadvantage in War on Cyber Crime

["Joel R. Helgeson" <joel () helgeson com>]

An aside on this issue is a conversation I had with a Federal Agent about
cybercrime - (no, I wasn't being interrogated)...
That the majority of policing the net is done by vigilantes; they are the
ones who respond to phishing scams, email, etc. Something we need to
appreciate/realize is that being a cyber-cop is part and parcel of being a
Netizen.

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Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 4:32 PM
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Subject: [funsec] Law Enforcement at Disadvantage in War on Cyber Crime

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Via GCN.com.

[snip]

The two things law enforcement and government need to combat the epidemic
of cybercrime is better information sharing and better information to
share, a panel of security experts on Capitol Hill concluded Monday.

The panel was put together by the Advisory Committee to the Congressional
Internet Caucus to discuss cybersecurity threat assessment. The picture
they painted was a familiar one of increasingly sophisticated online
criminals responsible for a global crime wave that law enforcement has
neither the technical nor legal resources to combat.

[snip]

More:
http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/45285-1.html

- - ferg

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