By the end of Chapter 1, it will be clear why the current situation
is crying out for a strategic, long-term solution.
The Advent of Pro?¬?table Digital Crime
You are sitting at the airport gate, waiting for your delayed ?¬‚ight
to start boarding. The unexpected delay, however, leaves you all
but stranded. In the seasonless atmosphere of the hall, you suffer
the familiar heat from the laptop on, well, your lap: AWi-Fi card
and an adequate amount of battery power are enough to pro-
Today the Internet
is part of our daily
existence
The Advent of Pro?¬?table Digital Crime 5
vide you access to an enormous number of resources. You can
manage your mail, send your relatives instant messages (IMs),
collaborate in real time with colleagues, check weather and
timetables, check your bank accounts, buy goods online, translate
a word you don??™t know, track packages, rent cars, trade
shares, write blog posts, ?¬?nd out whether that duty free is really
cheaper than online stores, trace routes, even access the recording
of your favorite sitcom from the media center in your living
room. Far from perceiving those activities as miracles, we already
take them for granted. We are actually extremely disappointed
when for some reason, say a lousy Wi-Fi provider, we
can??™t gain access to those resources.
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