CDR: Re: BRITAIN DEPLOYS 'CYBERCOPS' TO FIGHT INTERNET CRIME (Fwd)

Tim May tcmay at got.net
Wed Nov 15 15:47:44 PST 2000


At 3:33 PM -0800 11/15/00, Bill Stewart wrote:
>Unnamed Administration Sources forwarded this message about a
>new Internet-based terrorist group in Offshore Northwestern Europe:
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>Britain deploys 'cybercops' to fight Internet crime
>By NICK HOPKINS
>The Guardian
>November 15, 2000
>
>LONDON - The rising tide of Internet crime - hacking, porn rackets,
>extortion and fraud - is to be tackled in Britain by a squad of "cybercops."
>
>British Home Secretary Jack Straw said the unit will be headed by 80
>officers recruited from the police, customs service, national crime squad
>and National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS).

But since Havenco is completely exempt from British laws, right?, 
money launderers, pornographers, IRA bombers, extortionists, 
racketeers, and Benny Hill fans will simply relocate their machines 
to Havenco.

Nyah, nyah, nyah.


--Tim May
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