Will cybercrime ever surpass real-world crime?
Bruce Schneier
Founder, Counterpane Internet Security; author, Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World
Of course it will. Cyberspace is increasingly becoming a mirror of the real world. If we believe that cyberbanking will supplant real-world banking, then cyberbank robberies will supplant real-world bank robberies. And that's true for everything: communications, commerce, voting, stock trading, publishing. Criminals follow the money, and if the money moves to cyberspace, the criminals are sure to follow.
Joseph McNamara
Research fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University; former chief of police, San Jose
The potential for cybercrime is as large as your imagination. Now funds change hands in nanoseconds, and wherever there are new opportunities to steal, entrepreneurs are going to be getting involved. Organized crime has moved into Wall Street manipulations and finance, and I suspect that within a few years we'll be stunned by some massive fraud perpetrated in cyberspace.
Scott Charney
Chief security strategist, Microsoft
In some areas it already has and in others it never will. The Internet allows crimes such as fraud to be committed with equal - or even greater - success. For example, telemarketing schemes are limited by time zones and the cost of international calling. By contrast, phishing achieves the same result but the cost of sending email is trivial, and time zones are irrelevant. But having spent seven years as a prosecutor in Bronx County, I can tell you that some vicious real-world crimes have no Internet parallel.
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