An ‘Iceberg’ of Unseen Crimes: Many Cyber Offenses Go Unreported

Re:An ‘Iceberg’ of Unseen Crimes: Many Cyber Offenses Go Unr... by UseStrict on Monday February 05, 2018 @02:06PM (#16311121)

For entire classes of online crime, from a purely data perspective I wonder if providing a way to anonymously report a crime would help? Things like extortion, cheating spouses, lewd photos, revenge porn tend to be quite embarrassing, and perhaps pursuing justice isn't worth getting exposed. But knowing names, emails, patterns, and other details might help at least paint a better picture of the true nature of online crime.

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Re:An ‘Iceberg’ of Unseen Crimes: Many Cyber Offenses Go Unr... by chatmasta on Monday February 05, 2018 @03:35PM (#16311902)

An informal and anonymous process to allow the public to arbitrarily submit people’s names to a criminal watchlist? What could go wrong?

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Re:An ‘Iceberg’ of Unseen Crimes: Many Cyber Offenses Go Unr... by djsumdog on Monday February 05, 2018 @05:09PM (#16312698)

Makes me think of the Swatting incident.

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Re:An ‘Iceberg’ of Unseen Crimes: Many Cyber Offenses Go Unr... by emiliobumachar on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @08:14AM (#16316014)

Incidents

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Re:An ‘Iceberg’ of Unseen Crimes: Many Cyber Offenses Go Unr... by IntronExon on Monday February 05, 2018 @02:36PM (#16311361)

Sounds like a channel that would be instantly DDOSed for a number of reasons. Criminals would want it down, and the usual people with issues around law enforcement would want to hurt it, while younger people would potentially do it for shits and giggles.

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