SMS threat probe in Malaysia
The police in Malaysia is investigating death threats, poison pen e-mails and text messages to prominent local artistes that were sent via SMS or e-mails.
It is easy to press the "send" button on a computer, or on a handphone. It will be more difficult to identify the culprits if they were smart - using mobile phones that don't belong to them, and which are disposed after using them for a one time event.
It is more difficult to get them when they send an e-mail from a cybercafe - but here, frequently, registration of users is required. So once the police identifies the cybercafe via the ID of a webaddress, they are already pretty close.
People think that they can get away in the cyberage, by assuming identities and using webased mail accounts such as offered by Yahoo or Hotmail. But with web security ever increasing, such beliefs are naive, at best.
Update, September 28, 2004
The Star (Malaysia) reports (http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/nation/8995174&sec=nation) that a private college lecturer has been arrested in connection with the hate mail sent to popular singer Siti Nurhaliza after police successfully traced the address and the origin of the e-mails.
As we said "naive" - nobody can run away!
It is easy to press the "send" button on a computer, or on a handphone. It will be more difficult to identify the culprits if they were smart - using mobile phones that don't belong to them, and which are disposed after using them for a one time event.
It is more difficult to get them when they send an e-mail from a cybercafe - but here, frequently, registration of users is required. So once the police identifies the cybercafe via the ID of a webaddress, they are already pretty close.
People think that they can get away in the cyberage, by assuming identities and using webased mail accounts such as offered by Yahoo or Hotmail. But with web security ever increasing, such beliefs are naive, at best.
Update, September 28, 2004
The Star (Malaysia) reports (http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2004/9/28/nation/8995174&sec=nation) that a private college lecturer has been arrested in connection with the hate mail sent to popular singer Siti Nurhaliza after police successfully traced the address and the origin of the e-mails.
As we said "naive" - nobody can run away!
posted by Andreas @ 2:15 pm
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