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EU Hi-Tech Crime Agency Created

Posted by michael on from the move-over-scotland-yard dept.

Gori writes "The European Union is setting up an agency to co-ordinate work to combat the rising tide of cybercrime. The European Network and Information Security Agency will help educate the public about viruses, hacker attacks and other security problems. It will also act as a co-ordinator for Europe-wide investigations into virus outbreaks or electronic attacks. ENISA has a budget of 24.3m euros (17m), will start work in 2004 and will initially be based in Brussels."

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  1. Re:exchange rate is wrong by JeffSh · · Score: 3, Informative

    *sigh*

    read the article on BBC and noticed they quoted it as 17 million POUNDS.

    why was the pound symbol left out of the slashdot posting? weird..

  2. European Security Agency? by mashx · · Score: 3, Informative
    When I first read this, my first thought is that it seems to be a sneaky way to introduce a European equivalent of the NSA, without the security concerns that would involve on each member nation of the EU. It might only have a small budget now, but if the general idea is not to be too obvious that makes sense. The fact that its role will be up for reassessment in four years time could be used as an indicator for that.

    I'll put my tinfoil hat back in the cupboard for another day.

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