Encryption

An excellent explanation of encryption and how it relates to cybercrime is located here.

 

Encryption can be used as a measure of preventing cybercrimes, including planned security breaches, but also as a means of protecting intellectual property crimes and other crimes involving cyberstalking, harassment, and software theft. However, constitutional concerns must be balanced with the use of encryption.

 

Encryption is the transformation of data into a form that is close to impossible to read without the appropriate knowledge. The purpose of encryption is to ensure privacy by keeping information hidden from any unintended person including even individuals that have access to this encrypted data.

 

This is a pretty relevant summary.  Check it out if you're so inclined.

 

Blog Like An Idiot And Pay

You know, if your mother taught you that it's not right to post nastiness about someone on the Internet, she was right.

 

A Florida woman has been awarded $11.3 million in a defamation lawsuit against a Louisiana woman who posted messages on the Internet accusing her of being a "crook," a "con artist" and a "fraud."

Legal analysts say the Sept. 19 award by a jury in Broward County, Fla. — first reported Friday by the Daily Business Review — represents the largest such judgment over postings on an Internet blog or message board. Lyrissa Lidsky, a University of Florida law professor who specializes in free-speech issues, calls the award "astonishing."

USA Today.

 

I can think of a "blogger" right now that probably hurriedly erasing past posts.