E-Crime and the New Zealand Police
The NZ Police are travelling around the internet finding forensic evidence of wrong doing. This raises a question, should evidence that amounts to a set of digital switch states, in themselves, constitute a crime or is "fraud" as we know it a redundant concept in the e-world? The attempt by police to somehow "sanitise" networked computers that carry intelligence, the communications of terrorists, means that arguments for laws to convict merely on the presence of evidence start to be won. This of course leaves open a gaping hole when it comes to the ease with which a person may be framed for a crime. Police work in this regard is demanding but digitial evidence is indestructable. So keeping it is free. Storing it costs next to nothing. Locking it down with encryption is easy, and makes evidence of it (encrypting the date with the right algorithem can produce evidential artifacts that are impossible to fake). Evidence of where you have been has to become reliable. Credit Cards are a convenient form of accountability. Police find evidence of and use the internet to investigate a crime to help find perpetrators of harm to others. A liberal policy toward pornography has led to the inevitable trails of greedy child pornographers. Emailing, blogging or just surfing on the internet leaves trails behind, and that does not mean it leaves trails behind only on your computer. People running pornographic based business on the internet are doing so with the blessing and consent of the State, now able to detect line-crossers that perpetuate evil toward other people. For the first time ritual abusers have been exposed. The law is there to protect children. Child abuse and slavery are the result of people who abuse others. Catching them requires reliable mechanisms.
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