To restore its dignity, the law enforcement section of the
government of Japan arrested a male cyber specialist on Sunday. Raising the
argument over human rights, the police falsely arrested four innocent people in
the suspect of remote-controlled crimes of threatening massacre or blasting
last year. However, the crucial clues, which led police to arrest “new
suspect,” was found only in real world, not in cyber space. That showed a limit
of investigation in cyber world.
The suspicion of arresting the cyber specialist was forcible
business obstruction. He was charged by his commenting on a notice board website,
which indicated a massacre at an event of magazine sales. For that, the
criminal manipulated a stranger’s computer by using remote controlling software.
The police found a history of using related code making software in his
computer.
After the consecutive threatening cases last year, one man,
challenging the police, sent e-mails to lawyers revealing his commitment on it.
The arrested man has a history of arrested with the crime of warning a murder
in 2005. Although he claimed an innocence, he was jailed, leaving antagonism
against the police in his mind. The police regard the cyber specialist as the
true criminal of the cases last year.
The police, however, could not find effective evidence of
the crime in cyber space. A key fact was found in a memory card planted in a
collar of a stray cat in a park. In it was the information no one except the
true criminal could know. A man who set the card was searched depending mainly
on a video public security camera recorded. While this means invasion of law
enforcement power into our public life, we realized that the police could not
arrest him, if he had not come out to the real world.
The National Police Agency is making great effort to deter
cyber crimes. Although the agency has been assembling the specialists, ill
virus increases faster than their effort. It is necessary for the agency to
hire more skilled specialists from business sectors or academic sectors. But
they are too careful for the leakage of private information they collected to
hire outsiders of bureaucratic community. Looking for good-will hackers is also
in their half way.
Japanese society is more and more separated between cyber
world and real life. Young people call a man/woman who satisfied with real life
“ria-ju.” For a man who are soaked in internet world, ria-ju, with high-income
job, beautiful girlfriend and good health, is an object of jealousy. The
arrested specialist, without close friends, liked cat and he was playing with
cats at a café the day before the arrest. Cyber crime reflects social
disconnection in Japan between happiness and unhappiness.
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