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When William Hague, we estimated the Minister of Foreign Affairs, speaking in cyberspace, what comes to mind is very famous comment of Dr. Johnson to see a dog walking on its hind legs: it is surprised, not that it is well done, but it does not. And there was the Monday night reception at the Science Museum to launch luxury talkfest government, the London Conference on Cyberspace. The subject was told pleasantly lubricated public, "a phenomenon that has shaped the way we live, work and interact." The conference was "the first international conference of this type," and to provide any kind of dialogue on "threats and opportunities" of cyberspace.

The conference was a testament to how the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has traveled in the last decade and a half. If a team does not trust the network, has become a wonderful example of how a government department could participate productively in the networked world. Earlier this year, I met a foreign diplomat who, fearing that the foreign service of his country was far behind the curve, had come to Britain to see how the FCO has been using the Internet. He was very impressed, all the more amazing by the way the department is committed to online services (even allows its diplomats in the blog as individuals). When researching this column, I found some YouTube videos of the conference was not by an officer of Whitehall, but by Judith Macgregor, British Ambassador to Mexico - in impeccable English and Spanish

, William Hague, spoke of "threats and opportunities", but much of the speech at the conference inevitably focused on the former. And rightly so. Most governments are aware of the fact that cybercrime is a flourishing business. Reliable statistics are hard to find: online crime is vastly under-reported by banks and most of the organizations that publish figures of fear have an interest in raising the hairs. But no doubt that cyberspace has become a very lucrative opportunity for criminals. The newest "state crime" report from Symantec, a security company says that cybercrime now costs $ 388bn over the world each year, $ 114bn is the direct cash cost of online fraud, and other indirect costs of dealing with its consequences. This is larger than the black market for marijuana, cocaine and heroin combined.

Dark: cyberthieves, and you CYBERCOPS (Bodley Head). Mr. Glenny not a geek, but a journalist from the research experience and has had the interesting idea to focus not on technology but on a number of people who were once big shots in the cyber underground, but - for the most part - finally apprehended by the police.

Two things stand out from your account. The first is the strange way the cyber community reflects the real world of commerce. Thousands of people regularly "skim" the details of credit card, for example, but then to find people who eat cloned cards at ATMs so that money can be caused, so to speak, of the crop. How can hire these people? How can you sell stolen card data? And how can criminals (who, by definition, people are untrustworthy) to establish systems for online trading in which you can trust? The answer is through the establishment of trade and employment, as DarkMarket CardersMarket and systems and the use of escrow that lawyers do in the real world (legitimate) in the world.

The other thought
strike by Glenny's book is that our current approaches to computer crime focus too much on security technology (in which the governments represented at the conference of London spending billions) and focus very little psychology. Cybercriminals have very distinctive personality profiles, but tend to be intelligent, young and predominantly male. Often wander into crime more or less by accident. Therefore, it is easy to see and perhaps skim away before a credit card. And if we could catch them young, then cyberspace can become a safer place.

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