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Code, Decode in Secret (1/1/1994)
Baker, Stewart
The spectres of uncontrollable terrorism, organized crime and child pornography ... would be unleashed if strong encryption were handed to the masses.

Voyerism/Engagement (1/1/1994)
Mitchell, William J.
Network pimps will offer ways to do something sordid (but safe) with lubriciously programmed telehookers. (This is an obvious extrapolation of the telephone's transformation of the whorehouse into the call-girl operation.) Telemolesters will lurk. Telethugs will reach out and punch someone.

U.S. Data Highway Gathers Speed; Rules of Road Eyed for Computer Network (1/1/1992)
Dertouzos, Michael
When it's more intricate than the U.S. road system and it's all over the world, can you police it? Maybe not.

Policing Cyberspace (1/1/1995)
Sussman, Vic
No one knows exactly how much computer crime there is, though FLETC's experts agree the damage starts in the billions of dollars and will surely surge upward. The size and scope of cybercrimes are limited only by the bad guys' imaginations, technical skill and gall ... Crimes that worry authorities most [are] white-collar crime ... theft ... stolen services ... smuggling ... terrorism ... child pornography.

Crime in Cybercity (1/1/1995)
Kyer, Ian
We're just sort of waking up to [the Internet]. Now that it's an everyday thing, it's coming to the attention of the legislators and police forces, and I think they're not going to like what they see.'

Policing Cyberspace (1/1/1995)
Rinkevich, Charles
The day is coming very fast when every cop will be issued a badge, a gun and a laptop.

Policing Cyberspace (1/1/1995)
Tafoya, William
Crime involving high technology is going to be off the boards. It won't be long before the bad guys outstrip our ability to keep up with them.

Policing Cyberspace (1/1/1995)
Sussman, Vic
Keeping up with the wise guys in cyberspace will tax the imaginations and budgets of law enforcement agencies and put revolutionary pressures on America's notions of privacy, property and the limits of free speech. The rights of everyone are at stake.

Third Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy - CFP'93 (12/1/1992)
Koball, Bruce
Technological advances also enable new forms of illegal activity, posing new problems for legal and law-enforcement officials and challenging the very definitions of crime and civil liberties. But technologies used to combat these crimes can pose new threats to freedom and privacy.

Security Pundits Weigh War Threat (1/1/1995)
Kent, Stephen
Terrorist organizations are especially worrisome. They are eager for the kind of notoriety that would attend their knocking out the telephone system or air traffic control system.

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