Sunday 27 November 2016

Why is Ricky Gervais Publishing so Many Misogynistic Terms of Abuse on Twitter?




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CONCLUSION 


Are Pedophiles on Yellow App? Might they be without safeguards?

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Deviant behaviour online clampdown - NSPCC warns children of predator risk on Yellow app <a href="https://t.co/GoWewpzPYY">https://t.co/GoWewpzPYY</a></p>&mdash; Dr Mike Sutton (@Criminotweet) <a href="https://twitter.com/Criminotweet/status/802813885287989248">November 27, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Thursday 24 November 2016

The Marketing and Consumption of White Supremacist Extremist Racist Literature On the Internet

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BBC World Service
During the trial for murder and in the judge's remarks whilst sentencing to life imprisonment Thomas Mair, for killing    British Member of Parliament Jo Cox, it was revealed    he was a loner who had been consuming far right white supremacist propaganda on the Internet for the past 16 years.
Last night, the BBC asked me to explain some general differences between Jihadist sites online and those of white supremacist hate groups. In effect, one main difference is that the latter are usually very clever to stay within the parameters of the law when it comes to inciting violent crime and racial hatred.
Clearly, more research is needed into how many people are committing violent hate crimes on the streets who have have been radicalised by White Supremacist websites.Research into causal influence in this field will be difficult, but that should be nor excuse for failure to do it.
You can hear the BBC interview HERE    - NOTE: you can move the bottom slider forward by 10 minutes to reach the relevant part of this BBC World Service Newshour programme.
The reason they asked me for an “expert” opinion is because I have published two peer reviewed articles on the topic of the activities of white supremacist hate groups online:
Sutton, M. and Wright, C. (2009) FINDING THE FAR RIGHT ONLINE: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF WHITE SUPREMACIST WEBSITES . Internet Journal of Criminology
Mann, D. Sutton, M, and Tuffin, R. (2003) The Evolution of Hate Social Dynamics in White Racist Newsgroups: http://www.internetjournalofcriminology.com/Evolution%20of%20Hate%20(updated).pdf   
Reference to the BBC programme.
Newshour, 21:05 23/11/2016, BBC World Service Radio, 55 mins. 00:10:33-01:00:20. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/clip/34192 (Accessed 24 Nov 2016)
YOU CAN FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER HERE   

Facilitating Murder?

Loompanics and their catalogue of books has come to the attention of the authorities many times.

Today the book they burned following a lawsuit is still disseminated online: http://thehomegunsmith.com/hitman.shtml


Recruiting for hate groups and trading in hate

On Dangerous Quackery on the Internet

Tuesday 22 November 2016

David Wall on Fake Goods and the Lack of Evidence for Organised Crime & Terror Involvement

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Wall's views run counter to UK and US Government advice that fake goods fund organised crime and terrorism.


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Think about the solution to this critical disagreement.What might be an evidence-led way forward?Does the theme of the anti-crime video match customer experience? Does that matter?

 

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 It's complex: e,g:  https://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=x7v7q6A21QsC&oi=fnd&pg=PA122&dq=+validity+of+message+public+attitude+change+campaigns+&ots=i-bOOL0j_P&sig=nJkKw2ctfC_E56fJ928tKmXRxPM#v=onepage&q&f=false

Monday 21 November 2016

Defining Cyber Terror

Encouraging and Facilitating Harmful Deviant Activity

Sunday 20 November 2016

More Unreality on the Internet: The "Ape in Heels" on Facebook Disgrace















Following the election of Donald Trump to US president in November 2016,  Pamela Ramsey Taylor, celebrates with racism as she writes on her Facebook page "It will be so refreshing to have a classy, beautiful, dignified First Lady back in the White House. I'm tired of seeing a Ape in heels."

Not very, classy, beautiful, or dignified of her to publish that was it?

Anyway, Taylor's racist blurt was certainly a career decision. She was forced to resign for it.

Pamela Ramsey Taylor is the director of Clay County Development Corp, a nonprofit organisation that provides services to elderly and low income residents in Clay County USA.
The Mayor of the town  Beverly Whaling replied “made my day Pam”. Consequently, she is now Mayor Whaling no more.

Saturday 19 November 2016

Tweeting what might be interpreted as "wrong stuff" can land you in trouble at university and with the Police

Rutgers University professor, Kevin Allred was arrested after campus police tipped of NYPD that he might be a threat. He had to have his mental state assessed after criticising Donald Trump on Twitter. HERE
The content could, I think, be interpreted as indicating he might do something dangerous to others.
Here is what he tweeted. 


And after his arrest he continued to Tweet

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Thursday 17 November 2016

The Rifkin Imperative

Wednesday 16 November 2016

Denial of Service by Zombies

Tuesday 15 November 2016

Ambivalence and Hacking a Post US Election Postscript

Poachers Turned Gamekeepers and the Issue of Hacking as a Route to a Top Establishment Career



POSTSCRIPT 13th Nov 2106: Crime and hacking played a central role in Donald Trump winning the presidential race in the USA this month. Hacked emails from Hillary Clinton's campaign manager's computer were released by Wikileaks (here   ). Others found through hacking were released into the public domain by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who thinks they might effectively put Hillary Clinton in prison    - something announced by many before the election. And that serious claim led to US President Trump and his followers to constantly proclaim "she's going to Jail' and 'lock her up'.
Today, we see the highly esteemed political and anti-hate crime activist Peter Tatchell calling for a pardon for the Australian hacker Julian Assange.    . Assange is likely to come out of all this looking like a hero, a hacker role model. The telling question is: "Overall, is that a good thing, or a bad thing?" Whatever the case, policymakers are in a spin over the complexity of the hacker and leaker issue. Essentially the big question hinges on of the benefit of whistleblowing v criminal career hacking and those who profit off the "swag", both financially and professionally.
Read More Here

Monday 14 November 2016

The Screentime Crime Drop Paradox


Police to crackdown on the hi-tech crime of driving whilst using a mobile phone: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37968722

Another Hacker Extradition Case

Sunday 6 November 2016

What Might Possibly Get You into Serious Trouble on Twitter?


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Saturday 5 November 2016

Friday 4 November 2016

Wikileaks and Leaked Emails about Wikileaks

Thursday 3 November 2016

Regulating the Internet

Brief History of The Dark Web, TOR and the "Silk Road"



Click HERE

And a BBC blog on the topic of the Dark Web and a video of how TOR works  HERE


The Rise and Fall of Silk Road. Part 1 - HERE  Final Part - HERE

How to learn to offend on the "Open University of Crime"



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Wednesday 2 November 2016

Hi Tech Crime Reduction Proposal

The Evolution of Internet Fraud

Tuesday 1 November 2016

Issue of Hacking as a Route to a Top Establishment Career

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The problem just carries on growing as the US and British Governments respond    with regular tired old blustery announcements about fears and their plans to deal with the ever growing problem of cyber attacks.
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One thing that amazes me is that our governments appear not to know that once proven to be successful hi-tech bank robbers, or other type of hacker, that such proven success can land the ex-hacker a lucrative prominent position in cyber security.
A hacker I studied in the last century is now a University of Cambridge don! Can you do a little detective work and figure out out who he is from reading the article David Mann and I wrote    for our award winning research on the hacking of Rupert Murdoch's Sky pay-to-view encryption service?
This "poacher turned gamekeeper" phenomenon is for the most part peculiar to high tech crime. I have several examples of some of the most notorious cyber criminals now working in prominent positions in cyber security and elsewhere as advertised experts in the field OF information technology.
Whilst I am reluctant to list their names and positions, I do think our good wishes and concerns for the continued successful rehabilitation of notorious hackers is something we need to weigh against the problem that their "success stories" may encourage hacking and hacktivism as a sensible fast-track route to top jobs in society.
We need to know more about that risk in order to assess the risk that "the establishment" that so fears hackers is unknowingly allowing others to make hacking look like a sensible career choice.

National Cyber Security Strategy

Vulnerability of Internet of things leads to political bluster


Latest news story: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/cyber-attack-government-threat-russia-spending-increase-latest-a7390291.html