Re: Time to Offshore Cybercrime

["Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb () byrneit net>]

Perhaps the economic downturn has led to Wipro needing offshoring from the Russian Beezness Network?

In all seriousness, why would anyone be surprised at an emerging cyberpower seeking to keep their regulation lax? The 
alternative is lots of expense stamping out things that probably bring hard needed cash into the country.

It's not like the targets of the attacks are, generally, located in India.

To see parallels, note the prevalence of privateering among the American Colonists and in the early years of the USA.


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> Subject: [funsec] Time to Offshore Cybercrime
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> http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/your-cybercrime-friendly-
> legislation/00/12/345550/
>
> In the last week of December, 2008, the Parliament of India has passed
> the amendments to the Information Technology Act 2000, which is
> popularly known as Indian cyberlaw. The IT Amendment Act 2008 brings
> about various sweeping changes in the existing Cyberlaw...
>
> The most bizarre and startling aspect of the new amendments is that
> these amendments seek to make the Indian Cyberlaw a cyber crime
> friendly legislation; — a legislation that goes extremely soft on
> cyber criminals, with a soft heart; a legislation that chooses to
> encourage cyber criminals by lessening the quantum of punishment
> accorded to them under the existing law; a legislation that chooses to
> give far more freedom to cyber criminals than the existing legislation
> envisages; a legislation which actually paves the way for cyber
> criminals to wipe out the electronic trails and electronic evidence by
> granting them bail as a matter of right; a legislation which makes a
> majority of cybercrimes stipulated under the IT Act as bailable
> offences; a legislation that is likely to pave way for India to become
> the potential cyber crime capital of the world.
>
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