Legal Aspects of Cybersecurity Artur Appazov

Global Reach
. Network communication does not require any degree of physical 
proximity. An action in cyberspace is literally borderless and unbounded by such 
notions as jurisdiction or sovereignly. An instantaneous action is possible between 
participants who are in different cities, states or countries.
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Current legal 
frameworks are traditionally regarded as local in nature, being restricted to the 
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David Satola & Henry L. Judy, 
Towards a Dynamic Approach to Enhancing International Cooperation and 
Collaboration in Cybersecurity Legal Frameworks: Reflections on the Proceedings of the Workshop on 
Cybersecurity Legal Issues at the 2010 United Nations Internet Governance Forum 
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ILLIAM 
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, 1748-1749 (2011). 
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See in e.g. W
ALL
, Cybercrime: The Transformation of Crime in the Information Age 11. 2007. 
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J
ONATHAN
C
LOUGH
,
P
RINCIPLES OF 
C
YBERCRIME
3 (Cambridge University Press. 2010). 
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Susan W. Brenner, 
Toward a Criminal Law for Cyberspace: Distributed Security
, 10 B
OSTON 
U
NIVERSITY 
J
OURNAL OF 
S
CIENCE 
&
T
ECHNOLOGY 
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, 24 - WesLaw paging - (2004). 

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territorial jurisdiction in which an event occurs. Modern networked technologies 
have challenged this paradigm requiring significant adjustments to the law.
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Anonymity
. Cyberspace lets participants conceal or disguise their identities in a 
way that is not possible in the real world. Anonymity is an obvious advantage of an 
offender, and digital technology facilitates this in a number of ways. Offenders may 
deliberately conceal their identity and remove digital evidence by using 
commercially available encryption software, proxy servers and so on.
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