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July 22, 2004
Another Crime Story
Posted by Dana Blankenhorn
Good news.
Russian and British authorities have cooperated in smashing a ring that was organizing denial of service attacks against Internet gambling sites. The people arrested were mostly in their early 20s.
A nasty person might ask some nasty questions, however.
- Is John Ashcroft (right, from FreedomForum) really happy about this? Internet gambling is perfectly legal in the UK and Australia, but the U.S. campaign against Internet gambling sites continues.
- Did we really get the ringleaders? Consider the sophistication of the blackmail involved, and the dollars involved, it seems a little far-fetched to think some young computer users just out of their teens did the whole thing.
- I keep looking for criminals in pin-striped suits to do the "perp walk" on this kind of crime. I don't see any...yet.
- And what about Roman Abramovich? (Right, from the BBC.) This Russian-English cooperation can't be making him sleep better at night. Abramovich, owner of the Chelsea Football Club, made a fortune in Russian oil and is now a British citizen, but the Putin government is now on a legal jihad against a company in which he retains a big interest, and what if their gaze should move toward him?
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Dana Blankenhorn has been a business journalist for over 25 years and has covered the online world professionally since 1985. He founded the "Interactive Age Daily" for CMP Media, and has written for the Chicago Tribune, Advertising Age, and dozens of other publications over the years.
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