Preface
For more than a decade, surveys of Internet users, administrators, and developers have consistently ranked “security” as their top concern. Despite the advances in Internet security technology, the problem of criminal activity on the Internet has only become worse.
As Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the MIT Media Lab and the One Laptop Per Child association observed: bits not atoms. As the world goes digital, so does crime. Only the venue is new in Internet crime. Every one of the crimes described in this book is a new twist on an ancient story. Willie Horton robbed banks because, “That’s where the money is.” Today, the money is on the Internet, and so are the criminals trying to steal it.
People not bits: Internet crime is about people. ...
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