RE: Law Enforcement at Disadvantage in War on Cyber Crime

[Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>]

On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Joel R. Helgeson wrote:
> 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.

Use the term vigilante and I will cut off your ears. :P

Kidding, but seriously, it has gotten us into trouble before.


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> From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On
> Behalf Of Paul Ferguson
> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 4:32 PM
> To: funsec () linuxbox org
> 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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> Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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