The government says it will try to destroy the criminals' mining machinery.So far, the new rules seem to have pleased nobody.
Moreover, the accounts allow criminals to mine profiles of victims and their friends for personal information like birth dates, addresses, phone numbers, mothers' maiden names, pets' names and other tidbits that can be used in identity theft.
Cyber criminals will mine information from social media sites and use it to construct a profile of a person that can then be used to target others for identity theft or other phishing schemes.
One project IBM is negotiating to handle in the southern city of Kunshan could include a police system for mining criminal data and triangulating suspect locations from surveillance cameras and cell phone emergency calls.
America has recently brushed aside some good international agreements (on nuclear testing, for example, a world criminal court, land mines), as well as dismissing some bad ones (the Kyoto convention on global warming) with an insouciance unbecoming to the world's biggest producer of greenhouse gases.
The statement went on to cite "the federal Travel Act, which forbids interstate or foreign travel for the purpose of criminal acts" (emphasis mine).
Security company Radiflow recently discovered a European water utility had been compromised and its servers had been altered by criminals who were mining monero.
"How can you have a bill that takes the sentence of someone who has a worse criminal history than mine, who sold more drugs than me, and help him by giving him less time than me, but leave my sentence the same?
Among other changes, the law would bring more scrutiny to mines with "patterns of violations," increase the criminal penalties against unsafe mines and enhance protections for mine whistleblowers like Howard.
Data mining as criminal investigation is a good example.
