In Japan, the majority of cases in which illegal access is gained to computers are committed from cybercafes. This type of cybercrime includes break-ins to systems using stolen login names and passwords as well as phishing.
According to data from Japan’s National Police Agency, 271 of the 483 incidents, or 56%, of such cases in 2005 were made using computers from Internet cafes. Most worryingly, cybercafes were bases for the vast majority of cases in which the culprit remained unknown. This highlights the anonymity that such places provide.
The Japan Complex Café Association, which unites many of the country’s cybercafes, has proposed a membership scheme to facilitate law enforcement, but more than half of these establishments in Japan are not members of the association, making this move hard to enforce across the whole industry. Interestingly, the Internet café in Japan is now seen as more than just a place to surf the net – more and more people in their 20s and 30s are literally choosing the cybercafe as their home. Roughly 1,400 of the nation’s 3000 Internet cafes offer a “bed and Internet” package, and many homeless people use them to stay overnight.
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