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 Die Rückschläge bei internationalen Abkommen können
 Europas militanteste Regierung bei der Hochrüstung der
 gesetzlich ermächtigten Behörden nicht beirren.
 
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 Michael Prescott and James Clark November 12, 2000
 
 BRITAIN is to get an elite 20m unit of "cybercops" to fight
 internet fraudsters, paedophiles and hackers, the government
 will announce tomorrow.
 
 Jack Straw, the home secretary, will tell the Commons that
 the group will include officers based with every police force.
 
 The National High-Tech Crime Unit will be the largest and
 most sophisticated of its type in Europe, rivalled only by an
 organisation run by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in
 America. It will start work next year.
 
 It will include staff taken from the police, customs, the
 National Crime Squad and the National Criminal Intelligence
 Service (NCIS).
 ...
 Charles Clarke, the Home Office minister, who addressed an
 NCIS conference on financial crime at Warwick last week,
 said yesterday: "Cybercrime is one of the most important
 and difficult challenges facing law enforcement. It can only be
 contested using top technical skills. That is what this
 government is committed to."
 ...
 The Commons intelligence and security committee, chaired
 by Tom King, the former Northern Ireland secretary, revealed
 that MPs knew about the bug five hours before the "cyber-
 spooks", who failed to warn American colleagues in time to
 prevent users from turning on their computers at the start of
 the day.
 
 The anti-virus role will now pass to the new unit. Based at
 NCIS's south London headquarters, it will also have
 departments in all of the police forces in England and Wales,
 and possibly also in Scotland.
 ...
 The Home Office will fund the unit's 20m budget and a head
 will be announced later this year.
 
 Full text
 http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/11/12/stinwenws01004.html
 
 
 
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 World-Information Forum
 24 11 2000 Technisches Museum Wien
 http://world-information.org/html/site_index/index.htm
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