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互联网逐步成为谋杀者和恐怖分子的天堂

Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe has met with law enforcement experts at the headquarters of the New Yorkpolice department as the level of cybercrime（网络犯罪） increases ahead of officers’ ability to control it.

The Metropolitan Police commissioner said encryption（加密）on computers and mobile phones is preventing police from investigating and leaving parts of the web as “anarchic（无政府的）places”. He called on communication providers and internet companies to do more to protect the public from the so-called “deep” internet.

Speaking at the conference in the U.S, he said: “We cannot allow parts of the internet - or any communications platform - to become dark and ungoverned space where images of child abuse are exchanged, murders are planned, and terrorist plots are progressed.

“In a democracy we cannot accept any space - virtual or not - to become anarchic where crime can be committed without fear. Yet this is in danger of happening.” He added: “Privacy is important, but in my view the security of communications methods and devices is growing beyond what any genuine domestic user could reasonably require. The levels of encryption and protection in the devices and methods used to communicate are preventing police from keeping people safe.”

Sir David Omand, a former director ofBritain’s electronic surveillance（监控）agency, GCHQ, told Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee: “They are failing, because cybercrime is racing ahead, and the dark web is expanding. There aren’t enough experienced cyber detectives, the tools for cybercrime can be bought, law enforcement can’t access the communications data.” The law enforcers had been forced to look to the intelligence community, which was primarily involved with safeguarding national security, to help protect society from threats of terrorism and crimes. This has led to an incorrect idea that this amounted to mass surveillance, which was not the case, according to Sir Omand.

The remarks made by Sir Hogan-Howe comes days after the new head of GCHQ, warned that US technology companies are becoming the “command and control networks of choice” for terrorists.