Somiatruites, Ciberderechos en la Red

El tratamiento que se da a la parte oscura del ciberespacio está sobredimensionado: pornografía infantil, robos, fraudes... son asuntos que requieren atención, pero que por su vistosidad acaparan titulares demasiado gruesos. En cualquier caso, ahí va una historia sobre el 'cibercrimen'. 'Brazil Becomes a Cybercrime Lab', donde cuentan en The New York Times cómo Brasil parece que se ha convertido en un caldo de cultivo perfecto para las malas artes cibernéticas.

The country is becoming a laboratory for cybercrime, with hackers - able to collaborate with relative impunity - specializing in identity and data theft, credit card fraud and piracy, as well as online vandalism...

Last year, the world's 10 most active groups of Internet vandals and criminals were Brazilian, according to mi2g, and included syndicates with names like Breaking Your Security, Virtual Hell and Rooting Your Admin. So far this year, nearly 96,000 overt Internet attacks - ones that are reported, validated or witnessed - have been traced to Brazil. That was more than six times the number of attacks traced to the runner-up, Turkey, mi2g reported last month.