Are News Laws Needed For Cybercrimes?
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Techdirt reported that McAfee’s CEO has been pushing for new laws to deal with cybercrime.
He says cybercrime is now a bigger business than illegal drug trafficking in the US, and that the punishment doled out to cybercriminals isn’t an effective deterrent. He may have a valid point there, but new laws and sentencing guidelines don’t seem to be the most effective potential tool against computer crimes — particularly when much of this crime comes from overseas, where being caught and punished by a remote government isn’t likely to stop many criminals. DeWalt says that the technical side of security is “pretty advanced”, and that government is lagging.
Are the laws to prevent malware and phishing lagging? What do you think?
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lumpy
July 30th, 2007
at 5:19am
I agree that it is a problem but you have a very valid point… most of it is from over seas. I am hoping that some of it becomes less of a problem as consumers become more aware of it and cautious. Unfortunately, I don’t think that the average consumer has even 1/100 of the concern for learning about these matters as you do.
As far as tougher laws and penalties go, if it is any type of effort like the CANSPAM act, is it going to do any good? INMHO, it is the law that, in fact, legalized SPAM.
Or how about the track record set by the national do not call registry? Sure they are now not allowed to call you at home but the end result is they are now allowed to call you at work and suck even more time out of your work day.
The only way any laws will work in this country is when the citizens become aware enough of the matter in question AND scream loud enough to drone out all the lobbyist.