Both members and non-members of the Council of Europe will be invited to join. According to Piragoff, the convention will oblige nations to criminalise certain types of actions, such as hacking and disruption of service. It is hoped that sometime in the future the convention will form the basis for a new cyber-crime protocol to the United Nations Convention on Transnational Organised Crime. While the broad strokes of policy have been put down, working out the technical details with industry could prove frustrating. Apart from log file format and storage timelines, industry is bound to raise questions about how log files will be made tamperproof.
Secure storage has a price tag attached.
In essence, DRM protects information that is sensitive, valuable, or both by auditing and automatically regulating all access to it. Ironically, because it is a means to automate due diligence, DRM might come to be seen as a tool that serves both law enforcement and privacy interests. Oddly enough and despite the protests of privacy advocates, it may be easier to establish the technical foundations for real-time traceback. In this connection, the outcome of a recent debate over wiretapping telephone traffic that passes over the Internet is illustrative. During the on-line discussion that preceded the IETF's 10 November vote on this issue, a number of members voiced concern that building backdoors into the system would only open up additional security flaws.