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Re:Hackers Are Hijacking Phone Numbers and Breaking into Ema... by ktta on Sunday June 11, 2017 @10:55PM (#14534976)
>criminals are out of their jurisdiction

We are in dire need of specific cyber security public divisions are people can go to. FBI I believe will have many problems to deal with, and as far as I know, there isn't any cyber-police division capable at the city/state level.

Atleast nothing capable of handling incidents like the one mentioned above. The debate of who's job it is can get hairy. Especially with the future where internet is becoming more pervasive, there can be more damage.

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Re:Hackers Are Hijacking Phone Numbers and Breaking into Ema... by creepydata on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @10:55AM (#14545190)
The FBI claims jurisdiction on crimes committed by foreign national against Americans. It's just hard to investigate and arrest individuals who aren't on US soil, but not absolutely impossible. They arrested a Russian ID theft a while back, but they had to lure him out of Russia to do so, as the Russian authorities didn't cooperate.
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