His organization is building a unit in Singapore that, from 2014 onward, will be dedicated to tracking and breaking global Internet organized criminality.
Theresa May, the Conservative Home Secretary, blames instead "sheer criminality".
Mortality was more prevalent in the criminal groups: no criminality (4.11%), non-violent (7.3%) and violent criminality (13.7%).
The countries were starting to benefit from improved internet access, but would struggle to "suppress the criminality that will come with that connectivity," he said.
Our worries about the internet are embodied by the dark web, that byword for criminality, abuse and nastiness that repeatedly bursts into the news.
"In the past decade, we've seen a lot of the conversation shift away from obscenity, which had become difficult to prosecute because of the internet, and toward this idea that porn was damaging, addictive, or inspired criminality," said Mike Stabile of the Free Speech Coalition.
But the positive effects can be numerous: criminality can be ferreted out, falsehoods can be disproved and individuals can become Internet icons.
But if they can't understand the fact that disruption cuts both ways, and that the right of Internet folk to create awesome new business models doesn't trump a city's right to disrupt criminality, then it's time for them – not the hotels industry or legislators – to get out of the way.
The internet paints a damning picture, but more importantly proves itself to be a formidable tool in the fight against criminality that might otherwise go unnoticed.
The testimony from L0pht, as the hacker group called itself, was among the most audacious of a rising chorus of warnings delivered in the 1990s as the Internet was exploding in popularity, well on its way to becoming a potent global force for communication, commerce and criminality.
