Cyber criminality, what the police does to protect citizens.

In this article, I will face the cyber-criminality through the eyes of the police. We all know that the Internet can be dangerous especially for children. it is unfortunately the place of pedophile networks and creepy stuff like that. in front of the immensity of the net, the police has been first lost and suffer from the adaptation of criminals to these new technologies. But a great effort has been done to fill the gap.

We all remembered this summer the arrest of the Canadian pedophile at the airport by Interpol. In fact, western countries allied in this struggle. They all created special police unit to chase pedophiles on the Internet, the whole directly connected to Interpol. Of course, it remains a long struggle, but we can’t say that governments didn’t react.

Identity theft, it can happen to you !

Identity theft has exploded with the emergence of new technologies of information and communication in our daily lives. It seems very logical, people can profit of private informations (like your Credit Card information to buy stuffs, but also your national ID number for an illegal immigrant for instance) and use them on line without photo checking. Many western countries created laws to fight this new form of criminality (details on the Wikipedia article).

To be clearer about all forms of theft identity and solutions to solve it, I let you with that video.

Violence on the Internet

Have you watched this video ? This is one of the thousands videos which testify of a recent phenomenon called happy slapping. It is a fad among young people of western countries, notably England and France where a law has been specially created. It consists on attacking people in the streets (or any other public place) just for fun, to record it on a smart phone and then to share it with friends.

I think it’s disgusting to attack people in the street. To my mind, It is deeply inhuman. Civilization is what differentiated us to animals, if you fall into some phenomenon like happy slapping we get back centuries ago. I think movies such as Fight Club or Clockwork Orange have encouraged this. But people have to make the separation between fiction and reality. Violence has always attracted people, but we must fight against our instincts to live in an harmonious society.

If you really want to fight, go to a boxing club !

cyber-addiction, the case of Japan.

When I was a teenager, Japan used to fascinate me a lot. I read many articles about the samourai culture, the zen, the mangas culture, Tokyo and many others stuff about that countries. In my researches I discovered another reality much darker. Many Japanese are obsessed by the honour and the success at school and they put so much pressure on the shoulders of their kids. Sometimes they just cracked, and became what the Japanese society called a hikikomori. These young persons (mostly guys ,70%) prefer locking in their room at home, playing computers on video games, and surfing on the Internet (they only get out for natural needs). The fact is they prefer their virtual identity that their real one.

Another extreme in this country is the addiction about on-line video games like World Of Warcraft, or Counterstrike. To improve their level, they oblige themselves not to sleep for more than 2 days and sometimes more. An adolescent died again last week because he hasn’t slept for four days. They also pay someone to play at their place, or they spend all their moneys to buy items on e-bay.

What the hell is I-dozer ?

Hello celsians,

I was in a party when I first heard about a new phenomenon called I-dozer. It is a software which creates by specific music and waves a drug sensation. For instance, if you wanna know what would do marijuana without smoking it, you choose the file and play it and you’ll feel the effects without bad trip later.

I didn’t try it, but if it’s real, we would probably see in the streets people who are drugged by their I-pods.

Pretty weird and scary no ?

See ya