Susan Brenner on CircleID: Crime vs. Cybercrime: Is the Law Adequate?
‘We should not simply assume criminal conduct vectored through cyberspace represents an entirely new phenomenon, i.e., cybercrime. It may represent nothing more than perpetrators’ using cyberspace to engage in conduct that has long been outlawed. The development of the telephone, for example, made it possible to perpetrate fraud in new and different ways, but fraud itself has been outlawed for centuries. If cyberspace is simply an implement that is being used to commit traditional crimes, then there probably is no need to recognize a separate category of “cybercrimes” and develop specialized legislation to deal with them; existing laws should be adequate to do so.’
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