Computer crime - numbers lie

These great thoughts are still useful today. The mystique surrounding computer crime numbers and losses tends to create the most surprising statistics. We have no valid numbers but many people like to present these data as valid and still more people believe them. People are impressed by numbers; this article includes many of them but do not believe they are accurate. Believe that we do not know how much we do not know. This article gives a European and an American outlook from the Scandinavian point of view and suggests a critical approach to computer crime and loss statistics that usually are deceptive.