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Informationen zum Autor Douglas Thomas is Lecturer at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California. Brian D. Loader is Co-Director of CIRA, University of Teesside, and editor of the international journal Information, communication and Society. Zusammenfassung Cybercrime explains the basic issues surrounding cybercrime and its impact on society. It looks at: legislation, electronic criminal behaviour, privacy and liberty and the dangers of surveillance. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1 Introduction – cybercrime: law enforcement, security and surveillance in the information age PART I Perceptions of cybercriminals: hackers, insurgents and extremist groups 2 Criminality on the electronic frontier: corporality and the judicial construction of the hacker 3 Hackers – cyberpunks or microserfs? 4 Attitudes towards computer hacking in Russia 5 The new spectacle of crime PART II Privacy, surveillance and protection 6 Hiding crimes in cyberspace 7 Encryption, anonymity and markets: law enforcement and technology in a free market virtual world 8 Keeping secrets: international developments to protect undisclosed business information and trade secrets 9 Privacy and security at risk in the global information society 10 Data protection of law offenders PART III Information warfare, critical national infrastructure and security 11 Information warfare and sub-state actors: an organizational approach 12 Far right extremists on the Internet 13 Information warfare and the future of the spy
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Preface 1 Introduction - cybercrime: law enforcement, security and surveillance in the information age PART I Perceptions of cybercriminals: hackers, insurgents and extremist groups 2 Criminality on the electronic frontier: corporality and the judicial construction of the hacker 3 Hackers - cyberpunks or microserfs? 4 Attitudes towards computer hacking in Russia 5 The new spectacle of crime PART II Privacy, surveillance and protection 6 Hiding crimes in cyberspace 7 Encryption, anonymity and markets: law enforcement and technology in a free market virtual world 8 Keeping secrets: international developments to protect undisclosed business information and trade secrets 9 Privacy and security at risk in the global information society 10 Data protection of law offenders PART III Information warfare, critical national infrastructure and security 11 Information warfare and sub-state actors: an organizational approach 12 Far right extremists on the Internet 13 Information warfare and the future of the spy
