ABSTRACT
Introduction In 2011, at least 2.3 billion people, the equivalent of more than one-third of the world’s total population, had access to the Internet. Over 60% of all Internet users are in developing countries, with 45% of all Internet users below the age of 25 years. By the year 2017, it is estimated that mobile broadband subscriptions will approach 70% of the world’s total population. By the year 2020, the number of networked devices (the “Internet of things”) will outnumber people by six to one, transforming current conceptions of the Internet. In the hyperconnected world of tomorrow, it will become hard to imagine a “computer crime,” and perhaps any crime, that does not involve electronic evidence linked with Internet protocol (IP) connectivity.1
