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Kennedy School Seminar: "Slipping Through the Net - Criminal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Thu Sep 2 10:04:50 1999
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 00:39:31 -0400
To: dcsb@ai.mit.edu, cryptography@c2.net
From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
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Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 22:42:37 -0400
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> Harvard Information Infrastructure Project Seminar
>
> "Slipping Through the Net - Criminal Opportunities on the Information
Highways"
>
> Lee Litman
> Head of the Organization and Development Unit
> National Criminal Intelligence Service, United Kingdom
>
>
> The development of information highways - the interconnectivity of
information
> technology (IT) networks is - revolutionizing global communications and
> commerce, offering a plethora of benefits to citizens, businesses,
finance, even
> law enforcement. However, it has opened up opportunities for criminal
activity
> too: new types of crime (such as hacking and the release of software
viruses)
> have emerged, while traditional offences (for example, fraud and software
> piracy) have found a new medium for their commission. Thus, the IT
revolution
> also presents a major challenge for law enforcement.
>
> Project TRAWLER was initiated by NCIS in July 1996, to provide a strategic
> assessment of this phenomenon of ?computer crime? (or ?cybercrime?),
including
> the potential for criminal activity on the Internet and the implications
for law
> enforcement. Based on the Project?s findings, the speaker will present a
> strategic assessment of the use of cutting edge technologies by organized
crime
> groups, including securely encrypted communications and fraud, pedophilia,
> intellectual property theft, and other offences on the Internet.
>
> Lee Litman joins the Harvard Information Infrastructure Project as a
Visiting
> Scholar from England, having been awarded one of two 1999 Fulbright
Fellowships
> in Police Studies and Public Security Policy. He is Head of the
Organization
> and Development Unit at the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS)
in
> London, where his role includes responsibility for policy work, management
of
> relationships with partner agencies, parliamentary affairs and development
> projects.
>
> Thursday, September 9, 1999
> 12.15-1.45 PM
> BCSIA Library, Room 369, 3rd Floor
> John F. Kennedy School of Government
>
> The schedule is posted at:
> <http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/iip/HIIP-Seminar.html>
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Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com>
The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/>
44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
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[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
