Telecommunications Infrastructure
Computing & Internet Diffusion
Analysis: Strengths & Weaknesses
Analysis: Impacts on non-IT business
Transborder Data Flows
Cyberterrorism
The most important trend is the increase in the number of hacks and their growing complexity. Hackers are more sophisticated and have moved from recreational to specifically targeted activity (1). Centre for Infrastructural Warfare Studies (CIWARS) has been able to identify 10 professional hackers in Argentina and this number coordinates with worldwide estimates of under 1,000 professional hackers Network analysis reveals most of the Brazilian attacks have a domestic origination with a few attacks launched from Argentina (2).
A CIWARS monitoring effort in Brazil and Argentina targeted several Newsgroups and email discussion lists about LINUX, in which about 60 % of the people who requested information or reports were under 18 years old who were acquiring sophisticated LINUX skills (2).
Border Controls
A major problem continues to be the lack of border controls. Large quantities of pirate CDs enter Argentina daily from Paraguay (at Encarnacion and Foz de Iguazu/Ciudad del Este). Pirate imports also enter from Bolivia (Yacuiba), several points along the Uruguayan border, and at unknown points in Chile. In addition to pirate product, parallel imports of sound recordings from Europe enter the Argentine market (3)
Enacted Legislation and Regulation Overview
On November 10, 2000, the Privacy Data Protection Law (the "PDPL") became effective under law No. 25,326. Article 1 of the PDPL establishes that its purpose is the full protection of the use of personal data contained in records, databases or in any other technical means by public or private registries that provide reports, in order to ensure the rights of honor and privacy of legal and natural persons, as well as to ensure the access to the registered personal data of said persons, as established in Article 43 of the National Constitution (4).
Certification Authorities:
Resolution 212/98- New Regulation regarding the licensing of Certification Authority within the Argentine Government. Enacted on December 30, 1998 and limited to the national public sector.
Electronic Signatures and records:
· Presidential Decree 1023/01. Passed on August 13, 2001. Purchasing by digital means and digital signatures
· Argentine Digital Signature Law-Bill No. 2651/01. Passed on November 14, 2001.
· Presidential Decree No. 427/98. Signed by President of Argentina April 16, 1998. Digital Signatures Limited to the National Public Sector. Under this Decree, the President of the Argentine Republic authorizes the use of digital signatures for two years within the National Public Sector. Additionally, the Decree provides digital signatures with the same force and effect as manual signatures for all of the "National Public Sector which includes both centralized and decentralized administration, the autarchic entities, the state-owned companies, government partnerships, public limited companies where the government is a majority shareholder, state-owned banks and financial institutions, and any other body in which the government or its decentralized institutions have a controlling interest (5)." .
