> > > community practice of contacting technical contacts during incidents? I
> > > know there's probably a lot of "Cybercrime" funding at stake here, and I'm
> >
> > Well... If everyone contacts the NIPC whenever an 'incident' occurs,
> > they (the NIPC people) will be able to go to Congress and say "... See
> > how much cybercrime there is? After we started, there was an X%
> > increase. We have been able to 'contain' x%, arrest y%, and, by our
> > efforts, are making the internet more secure for "Motherhood and Apple
> > Pie". Thus we need more money, poeple, resources, et al. ..."
>
> My cynicism is why I posed the question. I'm worried that we're moving
> quickly from a self-policed community to a street with locked gates on
> each property, and that hinders our own efforts to help the less-clued as
> a community.
>
> Creating a class of clueless victims who wait for police clean-up after
> the fact is a bad real-life precident that I don't like the thought of.
It's been long known that the most successful crime prevention and
investigation programs involve the community at their core. It may be
that we need to start a dialog with the cyber police to build a
strategy for incident handling. We may have to initiate this dialog.
I would not be surprised to find out the groups working on cyber crime
have little to no experience with handling community relations.
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