The Digital Underworld
Software as a service could become crime as a service as the internet gets more sophisticated. Roger Box looks at the future of online skulduggery.
At a SXSW session this week Marc Goodman kept the room captive with his tales of the Dark Side of the internet – the so-called Digital Underworld – and what trouble the future holds.
He has a bit of experience in the matter; as well as being a former police officer, he advises Interpol, NATO and the UN on cyber crime issues.
Sounding awfully like a climate scientist trying to alert the world to global warming, Goodman is warning a dramatically bigger global effort is needed on security. Some of the points he raised included:
