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Extortion -- in this case hypothetical -- is only one of the many imaginative, daring and increasingly publicized crimes that have gone high tech in recent years. In addition to the predictable tax, insurance and credit-card scams, software infringements and eavesdropping, the computer is now the site of crimes that range all the way up to homicide. ``Law enforcement is becoming aware that computers can be used to facilitate just about any type of crime,'' says Jack King, legal editor of the Bureau of National Affairs Criminal Practice Manual...
Computer crimes are hardly new. In California prosecutors have been pursuing high-tech crime in Silicon Valley for a couple of decades. But the focus and nature of the crimes have changed dramatically. When the Department of Justice set up a computer-crimes unit in September 1991, it was intended to cope primarily with threats to computer security posed by hackers, toll-fraud artists and electronic intruders. But the new crimes, says Jim Thomas, a criminology professor at Northern Illinois University, ``aren't simply the esoteric type they were five years ago.'' They are ``computer crimes,'' he adds, ``only...
...technology into 21st century politics should serve to build confidence among skeptics. The mood of the nation is ripe. Last year survey takers reported that U.S. computer owners listed politics online as one of their highest priorities. And the newest political parties and movements often show a high-tech underpinning. Ross Perot's 1992 organizers, for example, drew their highest ratios of petition signers in high-tech strongholds -- from Massachusetts' Route 128 across the nation to Silicon Valley and Silicon Prairie. Upbeat theorists are prognosticating a ``virtual Washington'' in which members of Congress can debate and vote from back home...
CREATING VIRTUAL WASHINGTON Perot has already urged national town meetings, a group in Pennsylvania is talking about voters advising Washington via an electronic Congress, and nostalgia is growing for a high-tech update of Athenian democracy or of Norman Rockwellian townspeople gathered around a cast-iron stove in rural Vermont. Virtual Washington would be a wired, cyberspatial capital in which U.S. Representatives and Senators could participate from their states or districts, while citizens, too, would have any information, debate or proceeding at their fingertips. G.O.P. presidential candidate Lamar Alexander, who talks about sending members of Congress home for six months...
...believes NOCs are the best way to carry out many clandestine operations. A foreign-intelligence service usually has no trouble spotting CIA officers operating under an embassy's cover. Not so for NOCs. ``If you're working drugs, thugs or tech transfers, you're going to be in banks all the time looking at financial transactions''--jobs often better suited for an officer under corporate cover, says a CIA contractor. NOC officers also have had more luck spying on ``hard targets'' such as Iran, Iraq and North Korea, where the U.S. has no embassies in which to hide CIA operatives...