ABSTRACT
There is a revolution going on in criminal activity. The revolution lies in the ways that networked computers and other technologies permit crimes to be committed remotely, via the Internet and wireless communications. On December 9-10, 1997, US Attorney General Janet Reno held the first-ever meeting of her counterparts from the G-8 countries, with the focus on high-tech and computer-related crime. The United States has entered into bilateral treaties of extradition with over 100 countries. In 1986, an astronomer-turned-systems-manager at the University of California at Berkeley found a seventy-five cent accounting error in the computer's billing program, which led to the discovery that an unauthorized user had penetrated Berkeley's computer system. The Council of Europe is an international organization based in Strasbourg, France. Criminality deriving from new technologies such as computers, the Internet, and wireless communications provides daunting challenges for law enforcement around the globe.
