U.S. cracks down on cybercrime

By Friday August 27, 2004

IHT: U.S. cracks down on cybercrime

In one unusual case, the chief executive of a company that resold satellite television systems was indicted on charges of hiring hackers to set up online attacks that interfered with rivals’ Web sites. The executive, Jay Echouafni of Orbit Communication, is said to have left the country and is being pursued in what the department called “an international manhunt led by the FBI.”



7 Comments
  1. "-" says:
    8/27/2004 at 1:57 pm 
    This should be a civil thing. I mean, where's the criminal activity, except in the loss of income. That's a tort, not a crime. 

And excuse me, I don't usually just jump, but that's the whole point of all this silly criminalization stuff. The very large corps. don't like working for a living - and rightfully so - They'd rather push the FBI or whatever around. The corp looks good ("We're doing something" to the stockholders) and can do their own PI work if they want to. 

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  2. Ed Campbell says:
    8/27/2004 at 7:05 pm

    Hiring hackers to shut down a website is “not a crime”? Uh-hunh. Only the loss of income is a crime?

    Defacing or shutting down a website isn’t especially different from book burning, dude. You’re shutting down someone’s avenue of communication. Doing it for profit doesn’t make it less criminal.

  3. Jim Dermitt says:
    8/28/2004 at 2:31 pm

    Perhaps what we need is security@home. I know that we have seti@home looking for ET. Distributed computing appears headed in new directions. There are a lot of CPU cycles online right now. Good idea?

  4. Jim Dermitt says:
    8/28/2004 at 4:26 pm

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  5. "-" says:
    8/30/2004 at 3:56 pm 
    Here's what I meant: 

1) I "jumped" by responding to exactly what was posted by John C. Dvorak. Usually I would check sources. 

2) "Criminalization" is usually a tactic of entrenched powers - drugs, importation of medications, whatever - and usually doesn't serve the free-thinker's interest. 

3) "Denial of service" attacks are usually aimed at large web presences. Do they appreciate the FBI getting involved? Or would they rather the web (that's all of us, working through W3, for instance) develop ways for attacks to be harmlessly deflected? 

4) Even if large web presences would prefer the FBI (I'm just using them as an example of organized governmental police)  to protect them, would the FBI be able to protect smaller presences without becoming intrusive? 

5) Would the web stay tax-free if the FBI were the web police? 

6) Wouldn't it be interesting to 'solve' the spam problem? Or have you already set your email filter to exclude anyone you don't know? 

If anybody wants to follow these issues up - and, really, John had an interesting point which we haven't done much with - I'll post the URL's of the original articles, but they appeared in the New York Times and pretty soon you'll have to pay to see them. 

I'd like to follow up on these issues: spam, denial of service, web cops, and freedom of speech. 

Anybody else? 

And, again, thanks for the geeky/feely forum, John. :)

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