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Africa's Coming Cyber-Crime Epidemic

Posted by Soulskill on from the hello-sir-madam dept.

jfruh writes "Those Nigerian spam scams of the last decade may have just been the first step in a looming African cyber-crime wave. Africa has the world's fastest-growing middle class, whose members are increasingly tech-savvy and Internet connected — and the combination of ambitious, educated people, a ceiling on advancement due to corruption and lack of infrastructure, and lax law enforcement is a perfect petri dish for increased cybercrime."

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  1. Computers, in the future .. by dgharmon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "There's a great chapter from a 1981 children's book called "World of Tomorrow: School, Work and Play" that imagines how computers, in the future, would give rise to a whole new phenomenon: 'Computer Crimes" .. Computer criminals will "work from home, using his own computer to gain access to the memories of the computers used by the banks and companies"

    I guess it'll be safer to use the BBC Microcomputer in the 'future' ...

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  2. Re:No Laws, No Service by CanHasDIY · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So why the hell do we not cut them off from the Internet?

    Here's why, by analogy:

    Statement: The vast majority of violent crime occurs in urban areas.
    Response by your logic: Why don't we carpetbomb all urban areas to prevent violent crime?

    See what you did there?

    Generalization is the hallmark of the non-thinker.

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