THE FUTURE / BLOG 10

I'm going to begin by piggybacking off of my last post on the Deep Web to introduce my post on the future of computer crime. The future is most certainly lying within Tor browsers where anonymity allows everybody to do anything that they would please. This includes hacking companies or banks, selling drugs or murdering via a livestream. The issue with the future of computer crime lies simply in the topic itself. Computer crime and, more specifically, anonymous computer crime is difficult to track by its nature and by the time things had added up for law enforcement, the culprit has moved on and away and becomes unable to be tracked again.

The future has written itself out for law enforcement. They have to be able to keep up with the cyber criminals and find productive and effective ways of capturing and prosecuting them. Legislation also needs to be updated to mirror the changing times that we are currently living in. If hacker groups are doing their activities but are benefitting the greater good, shall that be allowed? What are the boundaries that law enforcement can cross when it comes to spying on and watching over people's computer usage? If there is enough circumstantial evidence in a case where computer evidence gets encrypted, shall that be allowed and admitted as a guilty catch?

There are more and more tech-savvy criminals popping up all over the web and it's important for the future of criminal justice to follow suit. Future criminal justice majors such as myself will need to be taught much more about programming and tracing identities through computers as a part of their regular curriculum as opposed to an elective that you choose to take on your own. As much as I enjoyed this course, my head simply cannot wrap itself around the technological side of things with just one course. I unfortunately do not currently have the skills to be placed into any position where I would be relied on to track people's activities through a computer. With the right training, sure. But that training is something that will need to be implemented into college degree programs in the near future.