Africa's Coming Cyber-Crime Epidemic 142
jfruh writes "Those Nigerian spam scams of the last decade may have just been the first step in a looming African cyber-crime wave. Africa has the world's fastest-growing middle class, whose members are increasingly tech-savvy and Internet connected — and the combination of ambitious, educated people, a ceiling on advancement due to corruption and lack of infrastructure, and lax law enforcement is a perfect petri dish for increased cybercrime."
They hijack boats (Score:0, Insightful)
Re:They hijack boats (Score:0, Insightful)
They kill a classroom full of 6/7 year olds. They are the filth of the earth too?
Computers, in the future .. (Score:4, Insightful)
I guess it'll be safer to use the BBC Microcomputer [wikipedia.org] in the 'future'
Re:No Laws, No Service (Score:3, Insightful)
So why the hell do we not cut them off from the Internet?
Here's why, by analogy:
Statement: The vast majority of violent crime occurs in urban areas.
Response by your logic: Why don't we carpetbomb all urban areas to prevent violent crime?
See what you did there?
Generalization is the hallmark of the non-thinker.
Re:No Laws, No Service (Score:2, Insightful)
That's not my thinking at all.
Then you should be more clear to avoid confusion - intent is often difficult to infer from written text, and it is the duty of the writer to ensure his message is clearly stated.
What I'm saying, these countries don't abide by the laws that the rest of the world abide by, so why do we treat them as equal.
What are these international laws that "the rest of the world," which includes Russia, China, and the U.S., supposedly abide by? None I've ever heard of.
What countries like Africa are doing
Ah, a student of the Sarah Palin School of International Knowledge.
Explains a lot, actually.