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theatlantic: Economists: Cybercrime Estimates Are Wildly, Ridiculously Overblown Estimates of cybercrime tend to be huge. Really, really huge. A recent study pegged the losses from cybercrime to companies at one trillion dollars. By comparison, the entire illegal global drug trade may total out a few hundred billion dollars, according to the UN. So, what cybercrime studies are saying is that the cybercrime market is several times larger than all the cocaine, heroin, meth, and pot sold across the entire globe. These estimates strain credulity. Could cybercrime really be such a big deal? But put the word cyber before anything and everything goes haywire: Cyberwar! Cybersecurity! Cyberblinders! We all know the Internet is a big deal, so therefore crime on the Internet must be a big deal, right?  Well, finally, two economists, Dinei Florencio and Cormac Herley, came along to think about these supposed cybercrime harm estimates. What did they find? I’ll let them tell you, via their editorial in the New York Times: It turns out, however, that such widely circulated cybercrime estimates are generated using absurdly bad statistical methods, making them wholly unreliable. Most cybercrime estimates are based on surveys of consumers and companies. They borrow credibility from election polls, which we have learned to trust. However, when extrapolating from a surveyed group to the overall population, there is an enormous difference between preference questions (which are used in election polls) and numerical questions (as in cybercrime surveys). Read more. [Image: Alexis Madrigal/Reuters]

theatlantic:

Economists: Cybercrime Estimates Are Wildly, Ridiculously Overblown

Estimates of cybercrime tend to be huge. Really, really huge. A recent study pegged the losses from cybercrime to companies at one trillion dollars. By comparison, the entire illegal global drug trade may total out a few hundred billion dollars, according to the UN. So, what cybercrime studies are saying is that the cybercrime market is several times larger than all the cocaine, heroin, meth, and pot sold across the entire globe.

These estimates strain credulity. Could cybercrime really be such a big deal? But put the word cyber before anything and everything goes haywire: Cyberwar! Cybersecurity! Cyberblinders! We all know the Internet is a big deal, so therefore crime on the Internet must be a big deal, right? 

Well, finally, two economists, Dinei Florencio and Cormac Herley, came along to think about these supposed cybercrime harm estimates. What did they find? I’ll let them tell you, via their editorial in the New York Times:

It turns out, however, that such widely circulated cybercrime estimates are generated using absurdly bad statistical methods, making them wholly unreliable. Most cybercrime estimates are based on surveys of consumers and companies. They borrow credibility from election polls, which we have learned to trust. However, when extrapolating from a surveyed group to the overall population, there is an enormous difference between preference questions (which are used in election polls) and numerical questions (as in cybercrime surveys).
Read more. [Image: Alexis Madrigal/Reuters]

Reblogged from The Atlantic

peak-society:

graveDocs: Punishment: A Failed Social Experiment

”Punishment: A Failed Social Experiment provides a detailed, critical analysis of the current legal and justice system generally in operation across the world whilst also providing potential solutions which work on preventing crime and creating a much more socially sustainable society.

The documentary film is currently in production, consisting of interviews with various academics, social activists and campaigners all of whom provide information on where we’re going wrong when we treat offenders, and what we could head towards in regards to the solutions available.

It must be recognized that in order for change to occur in the system of punishment and justice, wider societal and cultural issues need to be addressed – as this documentary film recognizes that there are inherent flaws in our current social system.

Although most sources of information originate from the United Kingdom, it is reasonable to state that the topics examined will apply to many other nations.”

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Reblogged from GRAVEWISDOM

“Allowing law enforcement records to be forwarded to N-Dex would be a benefit to law enforcement agencies not only in Minnesota, but also across the nation. As we are all aware, criminals are not concerned with geographic or political jurisdictional boundaries.”

Ron Sager, president of the Minnesota Chiefs of Police Association, wrote in support of a program, known as the National Data Exchange, that would nationalize criminal intelligence data. Minnesota is weighing whether to link a statewide database with the FBI information-sharing system, despite concerns by privacy and open-government advocates about the accuracy of such data, among other issues. Read the full article. (via centerforinvestigativereporting)

Reblogged from Center for Investigative Reporting

“These are war crimes in all but name. And the Western mainstream media are complicit in these war crimes. The Western media have made absurdities acceptable through their non-reporting and distortion of crimes by NATO powers. If people can be made to believe absurdities, then they can be made to accept atrocities.” - Michel Chossudovsky 

“These are war crimes in all but name. And the Western mainstream media are complicit in these war crimes. The Western media have made absurdities acceptable through their non-reporting and distortion of crimes by NATO powers. If people can be made to believe absurdities, then they can be made to accept atrocities.” - Michel Chossudovsky 

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Reblogged from Moving Through Recorded Thoughts