05-24-2005, 05:20 PM
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While there are weaknesses, and perhaps ICSI is not wholly necessary, I think it is a positive step which encourages cooperation but does not force it. It makes international crimes of acts committed across borders in cyberspace. It ensures that, at least within the UN, there is no haven for computer criminals where criminal legislation substantially lags behind technical ability to cause damage.
Additionally, this measure may help defuse fears that the United Nations is just a club for left-wing and bleeding heart resolutions. While it is important to have a heart, it is also important to have a brain. Hackers are not just people having harmless fun, they are criminals and their behaviour must be stopped where possible. To the extent this proposal does that, it is good.
While there are weaknesses, and perhaps ICSI is not wholly necessary, I think it is a positive step which encourages cooperation but does not force it. It makes international crimes of acts committed across borders in cyberspace. It ensures that, at least within the UN, there is no haven for computer criminals where criminal legislation substantially lags behind technical ability to cause damage.
Additionally, this measure may help defuse fears that the United Nations is just a club for left-wing and bleeding heart resolutions. While it is important to have a heart, it is also important to have a brain. Hackers are not just people having harmless fun, they are criminals and their behaviour must be stopped where possible. To the extent this proposal does that, it is good.