Extradition and mutual assistance treaties must be put into place fairly quickly which must necessarily take into account the harmonization of laws in different countries, including establishing some norms in investigating computer crimes and establishing common legal definitions for criminal acts as well as for accidental or negligent misuse of computer systems. All of these changes and improvements must take place with due respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. Modern societies are very dependent on computer systems. Medical services, national security, communications, transportation, traffic control, and banking and insurance services are operated on computer systems. The crimes are traditional crimes in new areas of technologies.
Computer crimes are crimes of traditional infringement in a new dimension.
Some of these infringements result in damage, usually extensive damage across the globe at a very low cost. That s the only difference when compared to a house break-in, theft and any consequential damage. Intelligent minds now have a sophisticated opportunity for law-breaking. An equally intelligent approach is required to allow the courts to engineer creative deterrents, taking into account the economic costs of global damage and threat to human security everywhere, when the courts have to deal with computer criminal behaviour. Governments had continually endeavoured to make the streets safe and now must endeavour to make the internet safe.