17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Crimebusters must devise more ingenious ways of combating fraud and will need new international policing powers to stem a rising tide of high-tech economic crime, experts say. Delegates at an economic crime conference in Cambridge, England, this week complained they lacked the tools and power to take the fight to the organized criminals whose only barrier was the speed of their modems.
Perhaps encryption could be used as a means of fraud prevention.