Hello People
A friend of mine is going to attend a Model United Nations (in which Highschool age students from several countries are chosen as representatives of a nation to the Model U.N) meet in Harvard and their topic is going to be Solutions to Cybercrime. I know the topic couldn't get more cliched and that there is no absolute solution as such but can u people give some ideas on how various nations can come up with something tangible as far as tackling cybercrime on an international level is concerned. There are several tricky areas like a German court (or was it French) recently instructed yahoo to stop showing Neo Nazi auctionables in their search and Yahoo got an injunction against that from a US court.
Sorry if this is way O.T, just that you guys are the few people I know who can give ideas on this.
Thanks Aarjav
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On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Aarjav Trivedi wrote:
give some ideas on how various nations can come up with something tangible as far as tackling cybercrime on an international level is
There have been threads on this on /., so you could look there, but to make a really short point, I'd say that censorship won't help. Making it illegal to do something doesn't stop people from doing it.
Don't push for tighter control laws (like the DMCA, SSSCA, UCITA, and others), which restrict legitimate users, but do nothing to stop people who would break the law anyway. Instead, push for better education of sysadmins. Push for openness. Push for accountability.
If a developer is held accountable for security holes in his system, and is required to inform all users of that system about these holes when they become known, then that would help in admins being forewarned about security lapses in their systems, and protect against unforseen breakins.
Philip
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