<p>He was speaking at an interactive session on ‘Cyber cafe security’, organised jointly by Hubli-Dharwad Police Commissionerate and Ideacts Innovations Cyber Cafe Solution Company here on Saturday. <br /><br />Terming internet as a ‘functional anarchy,’ he said everything in the system was working but without an order. It is literally an information highway. “Nodoby knows who is using it and for what purpose. The recent invention like social networking sites has widened the scope for personal communication beyond continents. This, unfortunately had come in handy for anti-socials to use the technology for committing grave offenses,” he noted.<br /><br />The first instance<br /><br />The first use of cyber space in committing a major crime in Karnataka was detected in the church blast cases. This not only helped the police to investigate the cases fast, but also made them to develop a mechanism to monitor cyber cafes and moot effective laws. He said the State had framed effective laws to contain cyber crimes and the Karnataka police had expertise in dealing with any kind of such offenses. He advised the cyber cafe owners to keep a record of customers and use security software to check cyber crimes.<br /><br />Hubli-Dharwad Police Commissioner Raghavendra Auradkar said several instances had proved that cyber cafes were being used for transmitting information to carry out anti-national activities. <br /><br />He said, the Hubli-Dharwad Police Commissionerate has been taking elaborate measures to contain cyber cafes being used for committing crimes. A meeting of cyber cafe owners was held recently to create an awareness among them about the cyber crimes and cyber laws. Security software would help in effectively checking cyber crimes as they kept users’ data and monitored the sites browsed and information transmitted, he said.<br /></p>
<p>He was speaking at an interactive session on ‘Cyber cafe security’, organised jointly by Hubli-Dharwad Police Commissionerate and Ideacts Innovations Cyber Cafe Solution Company here on Saturday. <br /><br />Terming internet as a ‘functional anarchy,’ he said everything in the system was working but without an order. It is literally an information highway. “Nodoby knows who is using it and for what purpose. The recent invention like social networking sites has widened the scope for personal communication beyond continents. This, unfortunately had come in handy for anti-socials to use the technology for committing grave offenses,” he noted.<br /><br />The first instance<br /><br />The first use of cyber space in committing a major crime in Karnataka was detected in the church blast cases. This not only helped the police to investigate the cases fast, but also made them to develop a mechanism to monitor cyber cafes and moot effective laws. He said the State had framed effective laws to contain cyber crimes and the Karnataka police had expertise in dealing with any kind of such offenses. He advised the cyber cafe owners to keep a record of customers and use security software to check cyber crimes.<br /><br />Hubli-Dharwad Police Commissioner Raghavendra Auradkar said several instances had proved that cyber cafes were being used for transmitting information to carry out anti-national activities. <br /><br />He said, the Hubli-Dharwad Police Commissionerate has been taking elaborate measures to contain cyber cafes being used for committing crimes. A meeting of cyber cafe owners was held recently to create an awareness among them about the cyber crimes and cyber laws. Security software would help in effectively checking cyber crimes as they kept users’ data and monitored the sites browsed and information transmitted, he said.<br /></p>
