Platypus Magazine
June 2000
In today's world the information superhighway has made geographic borders increasingly meaningless. The globalisation of crime, the reality of the Internet and e-commerce and the way in which technology is transforming markets and enterprises combine to make many traditional laws redundant.
Featured in this edition is this year’s Police Commissioners’ Conference. The timeliness of the theme for the conference, Crime @ the Speed of Thought, was illustrated by international news soon after the meeting that a ‘love bug’ virus, allegedly perpetrated by a ‘hacker’ in the Philippines, had infected millions of computers around the world causing severe disruption to business, industry and communications systems. Telecommunications analysts estimated the global cost of the virus would be billions of dollars.
- Computer crime in a world without borders
- Accountable performance in a seamless world
- Commissioner's Conference wires up to short circuit electronic crime
- Crime @ the Speed of Thought - A banker's perspective
- Crime in cyberspace focus of talks for Commissioners at 2000 Conference
- Planning for the future
- Programs increase awareness, cooperation, and help fight crime
- Close links essential in today's law enforcement environment
- Trial on Christmas Island one of only few to be held before a local jury