
Chapter 13
Cyberconict & Cybercrime:
Prospects for a Global Response
13.1 Understanding the context
The protection of information in an interconnected digital world is an issue for
all of us. We are surrounded by technology from our births to our deaths. Digi-
tal technologies are a major factor in our civilisation and, whether we like it or
not, digital technologies and the Internet have brought us rmly into the Era of
Technocivilisation
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(Figure 13.1). Information and communications technolo-
gies are everywhere; they are increasingly capable, increasingly invisible, but
also increasingly intrusive. Telecommunications networks, using and includ ...