Online Crime and How To Protect Yourself
Posted by Joanne Rapfield in Uncategorized, tags: crime, family, home protection, home safety, home security, ID Theft, online safety, safety, security, Uncategorized, womenThere have always been criminals in any society. Wherever someone has wealth and enjoys prosperity due to their hard work, some other denizen of society who gives no effort into life comes and along and robs him of it. The most classic example of the criminal.
These kinds of crooks would be featured in the good old mafia movies, the ones so old they would be in a grainy black and white picture. Aside from their Hollywood appearance though, these guys did some bad stuff. Not just the mafia members, but street criminals are responsible for most of the damage and fear many citizens have today. These guys were the ones who left horrible impressions on people walking the street, and were fodder for sensationalist news reports fueling the hysteria.
These mafia guys committed crimes that rocked the nation. They were the societal rejects, the ones who, when families saw their grim faces rotting in jail, would turn their kid’s looks away, as if their menacing stare had some hypnotic quality. These guys are the cumulative force that the United States walks so carefully with its prison system. It is an interesting matter that such an open system cultivates: you have these seemingly unlimited free choices, yet it is just unconsciously understood and hoped for that you won’t infringe upon them. Unfortunately, while many of us pay mind to these laws, guys like these do not and it rips apart at the moral fiber of our nation.
The criminals of old, the ones that would hold you up with their guns and then take all of your goods, although a force to be reckoned with no doubt, are child’s play to our crooks of today. The criminals of today have an overpowering advantage; technology is on their side. You might think that technology is really on the law’s side, making it easier and faster to get these criminals but in fact it just makes more easily concealed. The crooks have adopted the high tech equipment for themselves and become quite adept with it.
Think of an outdated crime; the robbery. An angry criminal who was hurting for some money would see a wealthy looking person, someone they think they could overpower. If they had a loaded gun though, the last point was irrelevant. Weapon in hand and in a secluded area they would approach their victim, wave the gun around, and demand a ransom. Once they got all of the contents of the wallet, they would most likely let the person go. They would then run for the hills and lay low for a little while, until hopefully people just forgot about the crime.
Back then, there were ways to track the criminal using satellite images and GPS location. It didn’t matter though: with a dedicated police and investigative force, the thief was always apprehended quickly. There was no technology they could use to conceal themselves or make the scene of their crime less obvious. Once they were caught, there was no DNA evidence to connect them, there was just a simple line up and the victim cautiously picked out the offending face.
Technology to the rescue then, right? Unfortunately, this is not all true. While our steps in producing DNA tracking, fingerprints and other high tech commodities, these tools also aid the suspect’s evasion of justice. An automobile is the highest technology a criminal today needs to disappear; it doesn’t matter is they know the criminal’s name. If they can’t go out and get them, all of their data and leads are just paperweights. Many criminals, like hackers and identity thieves accomplish their economic raids through the web, so there is not a real crime scene!
A non-physical crime; the perfect crime. This is a double whammy for law enforcement, there is no scene of the crime and the criminal can hide behind virtual walls they have constructed. Another scary thing is that, in truth these hackers and identity thieves are, as mentioned before, rarely caught. So with no way to try and stop them, we can only hope to defend ourselves. Be very careful online, and protect yourself with a variety of Internet safety tools. And avoid dark alleyways!
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