Alte Neuigkeiten: G8 action plan computer crime

[Thomas Roessler <roessler@guug.de>]

Zusammengeschnippelt aus
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_38000/38671.stm:


  Thursday, December 11, 1997 Published at 02:25 GMT

   The ten-point action plan in full
   

   Ministers from the world's richest nations have agreed the following
   ten-point action plan to tackle the growing problem of cyber-crime.
   
   They will direct their officials to:
   
     * Use our established network of knowledgeable personnel to ensure a
       timely, effective response to transnational high-tech cases and
       designate a point-of-contact who is available on a 24-hour basis.
     * Take appropriate steps to ensure that a sufficient number of
       trained and equipped law enforcement personnel are allocated to
       the task of combating high-tech crime and assisting law
       enforcement agencies of other states.
     * Review our legal systems to ensure they appropriately criminalise
       abuses of telecommunications and computer systems and promote the
       investigation of high-tech crimes.
     * Consider issues raised by high-tech crimes, where relevant, when
       negotiating mutual assistance agreements or arrangements.
     * Continue to examine and develop workable solutions regarding: the
       preservation of evidence prior to the execution of a request for
       mutual assistance; transborder searches; and computer searches of
       data where the location of that data is unknown.
     * Develop expedited procedures for obtaining traffic data from all
       communications carriers in the chain of a communication and to
       study ways to expedite the passing of this data internationally.
     * Work jointly with industry to ensure that new technologies
       facilitate our effort to combat high-tech crime by preserving and
       collecting critical evidence.
     * Ensure that we can, in urgent and appropriate cases, accept and
       respond to mutual assistance requests relating to high-tech crime
       by expedited but reliable means of communications, including
       voice, fax or e-mail, with written confirmation to follow where
       required.
     * Encourage internationally recognised standards-making bodies in
       the fields of telecommunications and information technologies to
       continue providing the public and private sectors with standards
       for reliable and secure telecommunications and data processing
       technologies.
     * Develop and employ compatible forensic standards for retrieving
       and authenticating electronic data for use in criminal
       investigations and prosecutions.
       
   
Die Story zum Thema ist auch recht interessant
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_38000/38009.stm),
um mal das Wort »demagogisch« zu vermeiden:


   Thursday, December 11, 1997 Published at 14:41 GMT

   G8 wages war on cyber-crime

   image: [ Hacking programs can be found on the Internet itself ]

[Gezeigt wird hier übrigens ein Screenshot von
www.l0pht.com.]
   
   Hacking programs can be found on the Internet itself
   
   Ministers from the eight major industrialised nations, the G8, have
   agreed on a plan to fight international computer crime.
   
   The move follows a meeting in Washington of the interior and justice
   ministers of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia
   and the United States.
   
   The US Attorney-General, Janet Reno, said criminals were no longer
   restricted by national boundaries and all countries had to act
   together if they wanted to combat cyber-crime.
   
   "With emerging technologies, no longer will we have to fight 21st
   century crimes with 19th century tools," she said. "Today is an
   important day in fighting computer crime, and in laying the groundwork
   for the next century of crime fighting."
   
   The agreement aims to tackle the following forms of cyber crime:
   
     * paedophilia
     * drug-trafficking
     * money-laundering
     * electronic fraud such as theft of credit card numbers,
       money-laundering and computerised piracy
     * industrial and state espionage
       
   The most important measure to tackle these offences is a commitment to
   train law enforcement officials in the tools of the cyber trade, and
   to co-ordinate prosecution efforts so that countries know where to try
   a cyber criminal.
   
   Ministers also pledged to create a 24-hour-a-day contact service to
   help national police forces respond quickly and in a concerted manner
   to fast-moving cyber-criminals.
   
   Other measures in the ten-point action plan include judicial
   co-operation and agreements on extradition, hastening the progress of
   mutual agreements, speeding up communication, provision of standards
   for secure telecommunications and developing forensic standards for
   retrieving electronic data .
   
   Overcoming legal hurdles
   
   International co-operation to fight cyber-crime faces some major
   obstacles, not least the differing laws in various countries.
   
   A top US Justice Department official explained: "Once a government is
   involved, judicial process and formal international requests for
   assistance can delay the investigative process, sometimes with
   detrimental results."
   
   Japanese domestic law stipulates that for an individual to be
   extradited from Japan the action of which he stands accused abroad
   must also be considered a crime in Japan.
   
   However, the heads of the Japanese delegation - Vice Minister of
   Justice Mamoru Norisada and National Police Commissioner General Yuko
   Sekiguchi - have shown "flexibility" on the question of dual
   criminality.
   
   Ms Reno said the ministers had agreed that where extradition was not
   possible because of nationality, "the same commitment of time and
   resources" would be devoted to prosecution at home "that a
   victim-nation would have devoted."
   
   The British Home Secretary, Jack Straw, drew attention to the need for
   close co-operation with industry.
   
   "We agreed that we have to have a closer dialogue with Internet
   service providers ... so that they are aware of the needs of law
   enforcers," he said.
   
   "There's also a need to recognise that we are all on the same side,
   because law enforcement agencies represent the lawful customers of
   Internet service providers."
   
   Brazen new world
   
   Although online crime has yet to take off in a major way, delegates
   were told about a brazen new world of Net criminals.
   
   Internet use has exploded. Almost 82 million computers worldwide are
   now connected, according to the Dataquest market research firm, with
   the total figure expected to reach 268 million in four years.
   
   [ image: Net criminals can tap in to the Net anywhere in the world]

[Gezeigt wird ein Laptop.]

   Net criminals can tap in to the Net anywhere in the world

   Encryption techniques are giving drug smugglers the
   confidence to chat online about their shipments.

   When they get their payments, criminals no longer have to launder it
   through the world's less scrupulous banks. Their computer can do it
   all for them.
   
   Violent groups are similarly exchanging bomb-making information
   through the Internet.
   
   The Net even opens up new possibilities for blackmailers. Once inside
   a person or company's computer, an unparalleled amount of information
   can be found. In some cases it is bound to be damaging.
   
   Germany shows off its Net laws
   
   The United States, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Japan and
   Russia must first agree what they mean by Internet crime.
   
   The Germans claim to be the first country in the world to have passed
   Internet legislation.
   
   As a result of a bill passed in August, German sites can be prosecuted
   if they contain "offensive" material.
   
   This includes not only paedophilia but also neo-nazi propaganda or
   other content banned from other German media.
   
   The German Minister for Research and Technology, Juergen Ruttgers,
   said: "What is banned on paper is also banned in computer language."
   
   But aside from the fact that the law does nothing to stop Germans
   accessing banned material from sites broadcast outside national
   borders, many Americans believe their approach smacks of censorship.
   

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