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-> > http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/afternoon/0,1012,1626,00.html
-> >
-> > The Netly News / Afternoon Line (http://netlynews.com/)
-> > December 10, 1997
-> > Big Eight Ball
-> >
-> > At a briefing at FBI headquarters today, top police officials from
-> > eight countries outlined a 10-point action plan calling for greater
-> > cooperation, joint training and a revision of national laws to combat
-> > malicious hackers and "cybercrime."
-> >
-> > Anne McLellan, Canada's attorney general, said her country wanted to
-> > crack down on "old crimes using new technology -- for example, child
-> > pornography or hate." Left unsaid was how, for instance, the U.S.
-> > could follow Canada's lead and ban racist web sites, which are
-> > permissible under the First Amendment.
-> >
-> > Among the virtual crimes listed were the "cyber-offenses" of money
-> > laundering and... H-bomb smuggling? (In response to a reporter's
-> > question, the Russians denied they had misplaced 84 of their nuclear
-> > weapons.) Heinz Lanfermann, Germany's state secretary, added to the
-> > list of Internet undesirables "all those who are organizing slave
-> > trading and drug trafficking and car theft."
-> >
-> > U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno pointedly declined to address
-> > encryption, saying "it was generally not a topic" discussed. She did,
-> > however, applaud the Internet industry for offering to "work together
-> > in a collaborative manner" to track "computer criminals."
-> >
-> > But she clearly intends to do more than collaborate: The joint
-> > principles call for the government "to continue providing the public
-> > and private sectors with standards for reliable and secure
-> > telecommunications and data processing technologies." Like the Clipper
-> > Chip, maybe? --By Declan McCullagh/Washington
-> >
-> > [More Afternoon Line stories are at http://netlynews.com/ ]
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