All That Energy

While the crimes are of the sort you'd expect - stabbings, and shootings, and the like - I have no doubt that we'll start hearing more and more about techno-gangs.

After all, the current crop of teens has been living with technology since their childhood, even if they don't actually have a computer at home. It's noteworthy that law enforcement officials believe the most vicious phishing and spam activity is linked to groups of people, rather than individuals.

Still, the writers of the most nasty viruses (at least the ones that have been caught) are more often than not loners. Consider the likes of Sven Jaschan, the 19-year-old German teenager who confessed to writing the Sasser and Netsky viruses.

Jaschan recently got a suspended jail sentence of 21 months plus community service. The people who helped identify him, by the way, get to share $250,000 in reward money from Microsoft.

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Here's an interesting social dilemma. Given that the loss of life from gang activity is shameful in this country, how do I say this, I would prefer to see that energy diverted into cyberspace. No, I'm not advocating wholesale phishing acts. But on the whole, the destruction is on a different scale.

How do you think techno-crime will evolve over time?