Virtual Crime

While there are, of course, still far too many street muggings and home break-ins, much of the threat that we face today comes through us through virtual portals. Much of the crime of the next century will be cybercrime as everyone from ordinary criminals to terrorists contemplates using computers to commit crimes. Any computer that is networked to any other computer - which today means nearly every computer on the planet - can be a point of access either to take valuable information from someone or to introduce information to which they do not wish to be exposed. This paper proposes a product that is not yet available - at least not one that works well: A filter that can truly protect children from access to pornography and (far more importantly) can protect them from being sexually exploited by people trolling the internet for victims.

There is a wide range of crimes that can be and are being committed using the internet that fall under the category of cybercrime - which is generally considered to include all criminal activity that is committed either in whole or in part through the use of a computer or by using special expertise about computers. The fundamental psychological impulse behind these crimes is the same that existed when humans used previous kinds of technology to exploit each other - from rocks to bows and arrows to muskets to Uzis. Given that human nature itself has changed little if at all with the advent of the computer age it should hardly be surprising to

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