Internet police?
An article at PC World summarizes how Internet crime grew rapidly in 2008:
In its ‘End of Year Data Security Wrap-up for 2008′, Finland-based security company F-Secure said their detection count tripled in one year, which means that the total amount of malware accumulated over the previous 21 years increased by 200 per cent in the course of just one year.
Criminal activity for financial gain remains the driver for the massive increase in Internet threats. Today’s malware is produced by highly organised criminal gangs using increasingly sophisticated techniques. This year has seen increasing botnet activity around the world.
The article concludes with this suggestion:
Mikko Hyppönen, chief research officer of F-Secure, called for the establishment of ‘Internetpol’ to tackle online crime. “The bottom line today is that too few of the perpetrators get punished. As a result, we’re sending the wrong message to criminals: here is a way to make lots of money and you will never be caught,” he said.
Indeed, some sort of international Internet policing is certainly needed. But the prospects for any nation ceding any police authority are dim. I am afraid that the Internet will remain the wild, wild web.
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