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                Date: 2000-11-13
                 
                 
                UK: Millionen für Cybercops
                
                 
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      Die Rückschläge bei internationalen Abkommen können  
Europas militanteste Regierung bei der Hochrüstung der  
gesetzlich ermächtigten Behörden nicht beirren. 
 
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Michael Prescott and James Clark November 12, 2000 
 
BRITAIN is to get an elite 20m unit of "cybercops" to fight  
internet fraudsters, paedophiles and hackers, the government  
will announce tomorrow. 
 
Jack Straw, the home secretary, will tell the Commons that  
the group will include officers based with every police force. 
 
The National High-Tech Crime Unit will be the largest and  
most sophisticated of its type in Europe, rivalled only by an  
organisation run by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in  
America. It will start work next year. 
 
It will include staff taken from the police, customs, the  
National Crime Squad and the National Criminal Intelligence  
Service (NCIS). 
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Charles Clarke, the Home Office minister, who addressed an  
NCIS conference on financial crime at Warwick last week,  
said yesterday: "Cybercrime is one of the most important  
and difficult challenges facing law enforcement. It can only be  
contested using top technical skills. That is what this  
government is committed to." 
... 
The Commons intelligence and security committee, chaired  
by Tom King, the former Northern Ireland secretary, revealed  
that MPs knew about the bug five hours before the "cyber- 
spooks", who failed to warn American colleagues in time to  
prevent users from turning on their computers at the start of  
the day. 
 
The anti-virus role will now pass to the new unit. Based at  
NCIS's south London headquarters, it will also have  
departments in all of the police forces in England and Wales,  
and possibly also in Scotland. 
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The Home Office will fund the unit's 20m budget and a head  
will be announced later this year. 
 
Full text 
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/11/12/stinwenws01004.html
                   
 
 
 
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World-Information Forum 
24 11 2000 Technisches Museum Wien 
http://world-information.org/html/site_index/index.htm
                   
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