Cyber Defense eMagazine July 2021 Edition

Play 'Smart' on the Crime Scene
By Milica D. Djekic
In criminology, the crime scene is a transferrable term that can cover many physical locations at the same
glance. Also, that spot can be correlated with one or more offenses and in such a fashion it’s important
to deal with the policing as well as investigation skill in order to make an accurate estimation of what
happened for real. It’s quite hard explaining what occurred somewhere and for such a purpose it’s needed
to organize so many officers, detectives and investigators that are capable to during the certain period of
time document the entire situation and do some tracking after the crime has been committed. The crime
scene spot on its own can be permanent and temporary depending if the criminals with their activities are
linked to some spot only for few hours or apparently, several years. In case anyone is doing an
exploitation or production of some good it’s clear that such a group will not change their location that
frequently. On the other hand, in case of some looting scenarios the offenders will just attack some place
and vanish, so far. In both cases, playing smart on the crime scene means leaving no trace in the
cyberspace and some well-organized criminal groups will know so and, say, in some armed robbery they
will switch off their devices relying on the local telecommunication or satellite infrastructure. As it’s known,
the best way to avoid tracking is to disclose device from the crime scene or probably remove its battery
from the housing as that’s the most convenient method to stay invisible, so far. In this article, we will
make a look at the possibilities of the interconnected world to get disconnected sometimes as well as
analyze how it is feasible to avoid the criminal justice tracking for some time, but also never commit the
perfect crime as it does not exist as the absolute security is still impossible.
Many of us have read the news saying some criminal group or syndicate committed some heavy offense
and consequently, they have been arrested after some period of time. Immediately after the incident the
investigators have appeared on the crime scene and they collected the findings and evidence, so far.
Some time has passed and the entire occurrence was under the investigation, so the criminals did not
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