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Each day we hear about different forms of fraud and theft on the Internet.\u00a0 Someone in America gets phished from a computer in the UK that is controlled by another computer in Switzerland, that is controlled by an individual in Italy, and their bank account emptied to a mule in America, and the money ends up with some gang in Russia.<\/p>\n
Even if you found the individual in Italy you have to answer this question: where was the crime committed?\u00a0 The Convention on Cybercrime<\/a> of the Council of Europe<\/a> addresses this very question, and fosters cooperation amongst\u00a0 cooperating societies.\u00a0 Extradition is so rare that it is worth pointing out when it happens.\u00a0 On the 30th of July a UK Court refused<\/a> to block extradition to someone who is accused of having caused many hundreds of thousands of dollars to US government systems.\u00a0 While in this case the government was a victim, something that happens all too often, far more often it’s individuals who are harmed.\u00a0 In this case the person sounds a bit disturbed. Let’s hope that next time they extradite people who do this sort of thing to make money, and demonstrate to them that it is not worth the risk.<\/p>\n Because the risk of getting caught is so small, this is an instant where the penalties should be very high when intent on theft, fraud, or disruption of services is clearly evident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Each day we hear about different forms of fraud and theft on the Internet.\u00a0 Someone in America gets phished from a computer in the UK that is controlled by another computer in Switzerland, that is controlled by an individual in Italy, and their bank account emptied to a mule in America, and the money ends … Continue reading “Why Extradition of Hackers Is Important”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,87,4,9],"tags":[109,32,108,110],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanity","category-internet","category-politics","category-security","tag-coe","tag-cybercrime","tag-extradition","tag-gangs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}