Re: Police Face Uphill Battle Against Cyber Crime

[Meritt James <meritt_james () BAH COM>]

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!

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