What Does the Future Hold for Cyber Crime and Punishment?
There's a Cyber Spy in My Soup
Cyber crime is vast in scope. It ranges from the individual criminal, to an increasing presence of International Organized Cyber Crime. Scams run rampant across the internet. They fill email boxes and websites, trying to lure unsuspecting victims into their webs of deception. Spy bots and Trojan programs attempt to infiltrate sensitive personal and business information, to gather what they can find, to be used with criminal intent.
Crimes of a more personal nature also abound across the Internet. Dating and chat sites are rife with scammers or people playing dangerous games with individual human victims. The social interaction becomes a crime, when the person becomes victimized by cyber stalkers, or people who use the Internet to bolster some insecure or ill ego, at the expense of a real human being. Children are often victims of these crimes too.
News headlines often include stories of victims to these Internet or cyber crimes. Some victims have reacted in personal desperation, to violations perpetrated by the online stalkers and game players.
Maintaining security and safety on the Internet has become increasingly more complex. Whole companies and businesses exist to deal with the problems. Law enforcement agencies worldwide now have special units which work on nothing but cyber crimes of all kinds. Take, for example, the F.B.I. with its Cyber Crime Unit or CSIS in Canada, with pages of internet issues. These Internet crimes cross all borders. It is now taken very seriously.
What's in the future for Internet Crime and Punishment.? With every new avenue opening up on the Internet, comes more possibilities for criminal intent. The difference now and in the future is, technology and human services are now in place or coming into place, to make these individuals or organizations accountable for their actions.
Laws and punishments for even the smallest Internet crimes are now on the books, or in the process of being created. Make no mistake, once something is on the Internet, it is fact. It is traceable and punishable. No matter how hard someone tries to cover it up, erase it or disassociate from their actions, once the footprint is made, it can't be unmade. Somewhere there is a way to track that footprint. Law enforcement across the globe will enforce it.
The Internet has not only drawn people together, it has drawn international crime fighting agencies together in a common purpose. The Internet is not a free playground anymore. It is a global arena. Internet crime will take the punch.
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19 Comments
Post a CommentI just recently submitted an invention called CAKE (Computer Access Key Express)
The key fits into your USB portal, You will be able to set your own standards and invite only those people who you want to do business with. You can select puplic or private rooms to do business. If someone wants to peek into your profile they will be identified first and you will have to give consent.
No more file molesting!
What are your ideas for correcting the net?
Good timely and relevant work here. Like some of the Michael and some of the others commenting here, the possibility of censorship and political repression makes me nervous, and that's always a potential of increased policing. I already assume that the government knows everything I do and say anyway, so I don't worry about surveillance in and of itself, it's there and we have to get used to it. The other thing that makes me nervous is the use of regulations to make life harder on legitimate small online businesses and give more control to a few major corporations. But as far as crimes against persons and property go, law enforcement has my support. Great piece! (got me thinking and that's a good thing, well most of time anyway....)
Good topic indeed and good work!
...and the question is: Which is worse - the Crime or the Punishment? The balance between security and freedom is not easily struck or effected.
I can't decide whether to be happy that law enforcement types can catch the bad guys because they are monitoring the internet or to be worried that I'm being watched.
Well-written and thought provoking article. Unfortunately there are always those individuals who feel compelled and/or entitled to take advantage of and prey on others. Very timely, I hope people take heed of the warning and use great caution with the information they make available to others!
Great article. At its advent, the internet was a fraternal free-for-all where scientists and students collaborated. Nothing of a financial nature was there, so there was no incentive for crime. Social networks were decades in the future, so cyber-stalking was unheard of. Over time the internet and the Web became more widespread, and more and more opportunities for crime arose, pulling in the criminals. Now, following a ways behind come the police. This is one of the drawbacks of our open society, that crime prevention is difficult, and enforcement must wait until crimes have occurred. Not that I'd want a tightly regulated internet, but the same things that make it a convenient resource also make it difficult to police.
Outstanding job on this, very timely piece!!!!!!!!!!!
It is a little frightening, but it is also a reality we all have to deal with now. Too many people have violated the free use of the Internet and the individuals who use it. Now they start to pay for that violation and the rest of us have to lose out because of it. It is way too easy to believe you are anonymous on the internet, when actually with the changes in internet policing and enforcement and the tracking and monitoring capabilities, online anonymity is quickly becoming non-existant. Thanks for the comments all.