Brazil Web Forum Takes on Cybercrime

The Internet is a powerful tool for the free expression of views and different views, but these freedoms, but also contribute to child pornography, predators, terrorists and other Internet crime.

All this has left computer experts, legislators and Internet service providers, in the United Nations-sponsored conference here Wednesday in the work, how to balance these issues, in an increasingly globalized, the digital world.

"A law is a product of society, reflect community standards, said:" (Markus kummer formally headed the Internet Governance Forum. " This is in conflict, and in many respects no national boundaries and the nature of the Internet. " the four-day forum, which end Thursday, brings together about 2,000 representatives from the Information Technology industry, the Government and civil society to discuss the main issues facing the global network.

the cybercrime an important complement Wednesday, British Prime Minister Brown, the British finance minister, said in London that he would ask the Internet and technology companies to help stop online distribution of terrorist propaganda part of plans to crack down on extremists.

experts, however, questioned how effective such a move would be in the fight against terrorism.

"This is an inspection recommendations, and recommendations for each check, to some people because it and those who oppose it, and said:" John Gage, vice president and chief researcher at Sun Microsystems " , and its one of these things will be very difficult to implement. intelligence people are not interested so much in what is said, who said. " Steve delbianco, Executive Director netchoice, a coalition of e-commerce leader, Time Warners America Online, eBay Inc. and Yahoo Inc. said that the British Government will be better focused on the physical network threats, such as the closure reduce computer network attacks in Estonia a few days earlier this year time.

"The attacks on the Estonia is just beginning," he said. "attack on the banking system may cause the actual economic losses. attack critical infrastructure, such as water systems or train system , can be devastating. " most of the talk about cyber crime at the core of child pornography, and other harmful information content.

" If someone was driving 500 miles to the dark places for children to pornography before, and now they can get it through the Internet becomes much easier, and said: "Mark gercke, consultants, the Council of Europe and international law professor at the University of Cologne." on the Internet can be used to hide your ID card, encryption and protection act. " gercke said, the legal profession is still trying to ensure that measures to combat cybercrime without prejudice to the rights of legitimate users, he said, it may require 50 to the system of checks and balances right.

"legislators try to cope with all kinds of challenges, the legal basis, I think this latest approach, how many of them that I have seen, goes beyond what I would like to that is balanced, "he said.

Howard Dayton, training coordinator inhope, it tried to step up the hot line to the Internet illegal, said the most important weapon in the fight against child pornography and other computer Crime is that the laws of the country fair and consistent.

"You can have privacy, but we are here talking about the rights of children and victims also," Howard said. "they must be protection, because it is not a correct silvers and worse. "