Inspiration Behind New CBS Show, 'CSI: Cyber,' Speaks To WPHT's Chris Stigall
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- The newest spinoff in the CSI franchise, "CSI: Cyber," debuts on CBS the night March 4th, at 10 p.m. and stars Patricia Arquette as FBI Special Agent Avery Ryan, the head of the bureau's Cyber Crime Division.
The inspiration behind Arquette's character, Mary Aiken, talked with Talk Radio 1210 WPHT's morning host Chris Stigall about her time as a forensic cyber psychologist and why people like her are important, regardless of where in the world you're from.
"I think in cyberspace nobody has a nationality. For me, it's not about being Irish or European, these are global issues and the expertise is relevant everywhere. Cyber psychology is an emerging discipline and people are coming through and becoming qualified in this area. I have to congratulate the U.S., because I find that the U.S. is never afraid to reach out and bring in expertise from whatever nation to help with the problem faced."
With the internet being treated much like the "wild west," Aiken feels that overall, there needs to be something done to try and ensure security for people.
"The internet was founded on a premise of frontierism, and there are incredible things that are exciting about this space, but we definitely need -- not so much regulation -- but good practice and some form of governance. You can't regulate for the speed of technology, because just as soon as you break in a regulation for something, it can mutate and change. So, I would, as a cyber-psychologist, hope that we could just begin to replicate some of the good practices that we have in the real world and translate that to cyberspace. We shouldn't just abandon this; we need that good practice in cyberspace to create a good society. "
Though it has seen mainstream use the mid-1990s, and cybercrime started to occur not long after, the experts still do not know much about how these criminals get mixed up and evolve in this world.
"We know a lot about real world criminals. We know that the wrong kid in the wrong home in the wrong neighborhood with the wrong friends can get into this pathway of crime. We know very little about the pathway of a cyber-criminal. How does a 17 or 18 year old boy or girl get involved in this world, and then how do they graduate from being a lone cybercriminal into organized cybercrime? "
