I can add, that, even if 'tracking back' do not work well, active defense (honey pots, etc etc) works in 99% cases. In our case (RU-CERT few years ago), main problem was time - any tracking or honey pot acrtivities consumed tremendous time, and resulted, in 99% cases, in revealing 2 more school students without any clue in their brains.
But it works - set up a traps, allow to get control over a few systems and trace actions back, generate (and than track usage) few _real_ credit card numbers and few _real_ bank accounts - and, in time, you will have someone's face... Technically - no any problem. (Legal issues are another story... in States). Alexei Roudnev ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric M. Fiterman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "JC Dill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "nanog" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 10:39 AM Subject: Re: Internet law > > On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, JC Dill wrote: > > > > > At 11:01 AM 12/30/2003, you wrote: > > > > > >> when will we see the FBI, and other local police in > > > >> the other countries send the script kiddies to the > > > >> JAILL so we can use the internet without too much > > > > The cost of tracking down and prosecuting them, and the difficulty in > > proving that what they are doing is against the law, is significant. LEOs > > don't understand how to investigate and prosecute criminal network > > behavior, and they have other crimes they DO understand that presently have > > a higher priority. It will take a lot of money and education to the LEO > > community before this will become a priority. > > I wanted to jump in and clarify a few things. First of all, we DO > understand how to investigate these kinds of crimes. The cases may be > more difficult because of the jurisdictional issues that arise, but we > still work them. Internet/Cyber crime is one of the FBI's top > investigative priorities, and the FBI is dedicating a lot of resources and > personnel to prosecute Cyber criminals. > > Also keep in mind that the backgrounds of FBI Special Agents are > changing; new Agents have more technical breadth and experience than they > did before, and are well-suited for cyber investigations. > > -Eric >