Cybercrime: Security and Surveillance in the Information Age

by Loader; Brian D.

• ISBN13: 9780415213257
• ISBN10: 0415213258
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-06-13
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Cybercrimeexplains the basic issues surrounding cybercrime and its impact on society. It looks at: legislation, electronic criminal behaviour, privacy and liberty and the dangers of surveillance.

Author Biography

Julia D. Babaeva is an associate professor in the Psychology Dept at Moscow State Lomonosov University William E. Baugh, Jr is vice president, Science Applications International Corporation, and general manager, Advanced Network Technologies and Security Operations Peter Blume is professor of legal informatics in the Faculty of Law at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark Philip H.J. Davies is currently lecturing in sociology at the University of Reading Dorothy E. Denning is professor of Computer Science and Communication, Culture, and Technology at Georgetown University Simone Fischer-Hubner is currently an assistant professor at Hamburg University Margaret Jackson is associate professor in Computer Law at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia Brian D. Loader is co-director of the Community Informatics Research and Applications Unit (CIRA) based at the University of Teesside, UK Gareth Palmer is a senior lecturer in Media Production and Director of the Contemporary Documentary Archive at the University of Salford, UK Andrew Rathmell is deputy director of the International Centre for Security Analysis, Department of War Studies, King's College, London, UK Philip R. Reitinger is a senior counsel for the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, Criminal Division, Department of Justice, USA Olga V. Smyslova is a postgraduate student at the Psychology Department, Moscow State Lomonosov University. Paul A. Taylor is a lecturer in the sociology of technology at the University of Salford, UK. Douglas Thomas is assistant professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California Alexander E. Voiskounsky is currently head of the Psychology Department, Moscow State Lomonosov University Michael Whine is the administrator of the Community Security Trust and Director of the Defence and Group Relations Division of the Board of Deputies of British Jews.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	ix
Notes on contributors	x
Preface	xii
Introduction - cybercrime: law enforcement, security and surveillance in the information age	1	(14)
Douglas Thomas
Brian D. Loader
PART I Perceptions of cybercriminals: hackers, insurgents and extremist groups	15	(88)
Criminality on the electronic frontier: corporality and the judicial construction of the hacker	17	(19)
Douglas Thomas
Hackers - cyberpunks or microserfs?	36	(20)
Paul A. Taylor
Attitudes towards computer hacking in Russia	56	(29)
Alexander E. Voiskounsky
Julia D. Babaeva
Olga V. Smyslova
The new spectacle of crime	85	(18)
Gareth Palmer
PART II Privacy, surveillance and protection	103	(116)
Hiding crimes in cyberspace	105	(27)
Dorothy E. Denning
William E. Baugh, Jr
Encryption, anonymity and markets: law enforcement and technology in a free market virtual world	132	(21)
Philip R. Reitinger
Keeping secrets: international developments to protect undisclosed business information and trade secrets	153	(20)
Margaret Jackson
Privacy and security at risk in the global information society	173	(20)
Simone Fischer-Hubner
Data protection of law offenders	193	(26)
Peter Blume
PART III Information warfare, critical national infrastructure and security	219	(50)
Information warfare and sub-state actors: an organizational approach	221	(13)
Andrew Rathmell
Far right extremists on the Internet	234	(17)
Michael Whine
Information warfare and the future of the spy	251	(18)
Philip H.J. Davies
Bibliography	269	(17)
Index	286