Noncryptographic Security Issues - Codes: The Guide to Secrecy from Ancient to Modern Times - page 382

Figure 10.1: Cybercrime.
This image is via the courtesy of the FBI homepage:
http://www.fbi.gov/ . It accompanied an article on cybercrime,
especially related to piracy issues and the damage it does. We will
look at these issues more closely in Section 10.4.
control over your own security. Do not leave that security for others.
Cybercrime Law Enforcement
One of the first cybercrime laws to come into existence was the Swedish Data
Act of 1973. It was general in scope in that Section 21 of that act incorporated
protection from the unauthorized access to all types of data. In the 1970s and
1980s many countries began enacting laws to fight cybercrime, but as is usually
the case, the criminal was ahead of the law. The United Nations adopted a
resolution on cybercrime, which we mentioned on page 377 (see the URL cited
there for more information). This was enacted at their eighth Congress on the
Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders , which was held in Havana,
Cuba, in 1990. The United Nations cybercrime manual was published in 1994.
However, many countries now see the laws of the 1990s to be woefully inadequate
to deal with the new millennium cybercriminal, so many are revising, updating,
and expanding those laws. For a case in point, see Footnote 10.28 on page 402.