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TAKING A BYTE OUT OF GLOBAL CYBERCRIMEELECTRONIC CRIME THAT crosses borders is a large and growing problem. But the major industrial powers are trying to come up with ways to cooperate in bagging computer crooks. Growing out of a mandate from last summer's Denver summit, officials will discuss possible solutions at a Washington conclave for justice and interior ministers of the G-7 nations and Russia, hosted by Attorney General Janet Reno on Dec. 9-10. Officials are targeting crimes that range from electronic looting of bank accounts to breaking into national security data banks. To date, the paradigm of international cyber-sleuthing is the arrest of a Russian hacker who allegedly stole $10 million from Citibank in 1994. He awaits trial in the U.S. The eight nations are cooking up international legal procedures and technical tools to track down a hacker through the global maze of local Internet service providers, telephone networks, and wireless systems. The officials want to set up rules to collect and share electronic evidence when foreign law enforcers ask that it be seized. Currently, evidence sometimes can be altered or deleted by the time all the diplomatic obstacles have been surmounted.
EDITED BY LARRY LIGHT
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