Cybercrimes: A Multidisciplinary Analysis
Designed to serve as a reference work for practitioners, academics and scholars worldwide, this book is the first of its kind to explain complex cybercrimes from the perspectives of multiple disciplines (computer science, law, economics, psychology, etc.)
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Sumit Ghosh
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Elliot Turrini
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Editors Prof. Sumit Ghosh 917 Joel Drive Tyler, Texas 75703 USA [email protected]
Elliot Turrini 10 Babbit Road Mendham, New Jersey 07945 USA [email protected]
ISBN 978-3-642-13546-0 e-ISBN 978-3-642-13547-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-13547-7 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2010936441 c Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Cover design: WMX Design GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
What’s so important about cybercrime? Isn’t it just another form of crime – like a violent or financial crime? The answer is both yes and no. Yes, in this way that any crime is a violation of a criminal law. But no in three important ways. First, a single cybercriminal with just one computer, right knowledge, and Internet access can cause immense social harm that was previously considered impossible. Second, the potential harm from cybercrime increases every second of every day, as computing technologies become more ubiquitous in our lives. Third, cybercriminals are often much more difficult to apprehend than traditional criminals, rendering the enforcement of cybercrime laws even less effective at crime prevention than the general enforcement of criminals laws. Today, computers are everywhere, starting from cash registers in the grocery stores to running our cars, medical instruments that automatically read our temperature and blood pressure, routine banking, navigating airlines, and directing electricity to our homes and businesses. Consider the future of biotechnology, where tiny computers in the form of smart devices will be implanted inside our bodies – similar to, but more powerful than a pace maker. These devices will interact with our bodies in some profoundly important ways, and send and receive wireless communications from our doctors. Today, and even more so tomorrow, virtually all of these computers are interlinked through computer networks. Increasingly, computers and networks will entrench literally every aspect of our civilization
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