May 11, 2007
'Cybercrime: Digital Cops in a Networked Environment'
When a crime scene is in cyberspace, forget the yellow tape. Boundaries, along with evidence and procedure, need to be re-envisioned. Or, as Daniel E. Geer Jr. puts it: "'Digital law' is and must be counterintuitive" because our intuitions about the physical world can be misleading when applied to the digital realm.
Mr. Geer's essay on the "physics of digital law" is a fitting start to Cybercrime: Digital Cops in a Networked Environment (New York University Press), a collection of
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