New Tools, Same Crimes
0400 BC - “Human nature doesn’t change” - Thucydides
2004 AD - “New technologies have not spawned new crimes” - Bill Hughes (head of the UK National Crime Squad).
Interesting piece from Auntie.
Mr Hughes said growing use of computers was not spawning a generation of new criminals committing new crimes. Instead, many of the crimes were well-worn favourites with criminals such as extortion, fraud and theft …Currently in vogue among criminals, he said, were denial-of-service scams that simply put a modern gloss on old-fashioned protection rackets run by gangsters like the Krays.
Social Computing and the Organization
Templeton College, Oxford University, is hosting a seminar later this week on Social Computing and the Organization. Here are some of the questions they’re using as conversation-starters–questions that are certainly relevant to instituti…