January 5, 2007

We Must Educate Young People About Cybercrime Before They Start College

By SAMUEL C. MCQUADE III

With the start of this new year, the United States formally becomes a party to the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime, marking another major development in worldwide efforts to combat high-tech crime. However, the convention, despite being the first international treaty on cybercrime, is more of the same: Fifty years after the onset of documented computer abuse in the United States, our efforts to curb it have helped very little. We continue to seek technological, legislative, and

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