Resilient Communities and Digital Jails1. Resilient Communities and Digital Jails
Mike Surridge / IT Innovation
Project FP7 ICT SESERV
Effectsplus Trustworthy ICT Research Roadmap Session
Cluster Meeting 29/30 March 2011
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2. Changes and Vision
Key changes in online services and communities
large increase in opportunities for cybercrime (already)
large increase in online crime scale and diversity (diverse
attackers, methods, victims, severity levels, etc)
overloading of law enforcement institutions (lack of expertise,
lack of resources, lack of tools)
Vision
criminal activity that can’t be largely prevented is tolerable: akin
to vandalism but not robbery or murder
online communities cooperate with governments to combat
serious crimes: service operators, users, aggregators, etc
online social structures and pressures combined with technical
measures limit the impact of other criminality: cyber-sanctions
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3. Challenges
Key challenges
how can [we] decide which crimes to ignore, address within the
community, or leave to institutional law enforcement?
• when is a copyright infringer a serious offender, when is an
aggressive traffic source or throttle a criminal obstruction?
what sanctions could be imposed within the community, and how
can they be enforced (e.g. digital jail rather than physical jail)?
how can/should communities support law enforcement to tackle
more serious crimes, and by what technical means?
Approach: RTD themes?
proportionate surveillance methods for classifying behaviour
more socially robust and realistic models of privacy vs
accountability, for peer groups as well as government-citizen
‘vandal tolerant’ technologies for … everything
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