One of their proposals is to make the use of caller ID compulsary. At this moment it is possible to switch off this identification number that makes it possible to trace the telephone account that is being used to get acces to the Internet. An other proposal is to introduce a 'license number' for Internet users. Each user should have a fixed, registered IP number, which will be stored in a national register. Police should have 'lawfull access' to this register.
Many wild stories circulate, but there's little proof.
Digital detectives run rearly in cases where methods are used to encrypt or scramble data. According to these officers, encryption is not a real threat at the moment, although they expect the use of encryption will strike root in the future. The detectives told us that protected files are often easy to approach, because many suspects have written down their passwords somewhere, for instance on a piece of paper next to their computer, or tell the password when asked. So far for the dangerous Dutch cyber criminals. It seems the authorities are stressing the threat of an uncontrolled and dangerous cyber space mostly to get more powers for datasurveillance, interception and investigation.