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                Date: 1999-02-07
                 
                 
                Japan: Internet-Polizeitruppe aufgestellt
                
                 
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      Langsam aber sicher kriegt jedes Land eine eigene  
Spezialeinheit zum Kampfe gegen Elektrokriminalität,  
gewissermassen eine Kyberei. 
 
post/scrypt: "Kiberer" (wienerisch/rotwelsch) steht für  
"Polizist" . 
 
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CHESTER DAWSON 
TOKYO (AP)  
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Due to open by July, the new headquarters for the National  
Police Agency's ``cyber-cop'' squad signals growing concern  
about computer security as more and more Japanese join the  
global on-line revolution. 
 
And while cases of unauthorized computer snooping in Japan  
are still fewer than in the United States, a sharp jump in  
computer-related crimes in recent years has rattled  
authorities in Tokyo. 
.... 
Breaking into a computer system isn't even a crime in Japan,  
which sets it apart from most other major industrialized  
nations. 
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Worry about the potential for computer-generated chaos has  
prompted Tokyo to draft legislation to outlaw unauthorized  
access. A bill is expected to be submitted in the current  
session of Parliament, which ends in June. 
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The problem is still relatively new to Japan. In 1997 _ the  
most recent year for which data is available _ the number of  
high-tech crimes known to the Japanese police climbed to  
263 cases, up from 178 cases the previous year and just 32  
cases in 1993. 
... 
Japanese police suspect the true number of computer crimes  
is several times higher than the official figures, and note that  
many businesses keep security problems under wraps to  
avoid negative publicity. 
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Source 
Associated Press 
 
relayed by 
harkank@quintessenz.at 
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published on: 1999-02-07 
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