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Building a Global Cyber Police Force

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-recommend-team-america dept.

dasButcher writes "One of the biggest obstacles to fighting hackers and cyber-criminals is that many operate in the safe harbors of their home countries, insulated from prosecution by authorities in foreign countries where their targets reside. As Larry Walsh writes in his blog, several security vendors and a growing number of countries are now beginning to consider the creation of a global police force that would have trans-border jurisdiction to investigate and arrest suspected hackers."

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  1. Once the arrests are made... by Interoperable · · Score: 3, Interesting

    who will prosecute the suspects? A criminal trial is expensive and ends up importing criminals to whichever nation chooses to prosecute. That's the reason that the Somali pirates get turned loose. A similar situation would arise for trans-border cyber crime. Everyone would hope that someone else would prosecute.

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  2. Interpol? by manyxcxi · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Isn't that pretty much what the International Criminal Police Organization is supposed to do? It's the second largest intergovernmental conglomeration behind the UN, and has almost 200 member countries. Given that cyber crime is crime nonetheless, I'd hope that they were gearing up to be able to handle more and more of it. I feel like more than anything, the laws need to catch up to the criminals in these cases- or they aren't really criminals at all.

  3. Re:This sounds like wishful thinking by clone53421 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I predict the following:

    > Funded almost entirely by the USA

    > Staffed almost entirely by the USA

    > Enforceable primarily in the USA, to a smaller degree in a few friendly countries, and with a handful of other countries agreeing to extradite suspects, maybe, if we ask them politely enough on days of the month evenly divisible by 13.

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  4. The U.S. has no problem doing this when they want by cenc · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Like the U.S. law in congress right now forcing foreign banks to provide all information related to American owning accounts internationally, close them, or have 30% of the bank's assets in the United States withheld.

    How about the recent EU SWIFT information handover to the U.S.?

    I could see the U.S. doing something similar with internet connections of ISPs that run through the U.S., or have buisness in the U.S. Perhaps they will withhold 30% of their bandwidth.

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  5. Cyber crime and corrupt governments by swb · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The problem isn't being protected from remote governments, its the tacit approval and involvement of the local government.

    Russia, anyone? Do you think that cybercrime there doesn't involve FSB?