Identify the eight forecasts for the future of digital crime according to Taylor, Caeti, Loper, Fritsch, and Liederbach in Digital Crime and Digital Terrorism (2006).

What will be an ideal response?


1) Crimes involving computers will increase substantially, requiring major changes in resource allocation and training and the creation of new police specialties.
2) Internet fraud, including identity theft, will be the largest computer problem.
3) Virtual crimes against persons will increase at a faster pace, requiring new laws and new types of crime investigation and prevention.
4) Some hacker groups will evolve into networked criminal enterprises.
5) Organized crime groups will increasingly use the computer as a criminal instrument.
6) Terrorist groups will increasingly use the internet for communications as well as for cyberterrorism.
7) Espionage will continue to evolve into information warfare, economic espionage, and intellectual property theft.
8) Criminals, terrorists, and anarchists will accelerate the use of technology to steal data, destroy communications, and in other ways do harm.

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