It is stated in the Hans Jonas article that initially, the short arm of human power did not call for a long arm of predictive knowledge. An interpretation is that it does not take an elite level of knowledge to understand and carry out ethical actions in the short term, because it can’t determine the long term knowledge. It is argued that human good is the same for all time, and that this assumption can be a framework for ethics, and therefore policy.

With the implementation of modern technology, it is now argued that this stance on short arm ethics has changed. It is stated that since the influence of action in this new technological realm has such a broader and expanding effect, that we have to now take into account our actions because of its widespread implications. Another aspect laced into this is that with this new technological realm, there is also a greater number of people effected by this, and that now the group is responds in its own way where before this wasn’t the case. The example indicated in the Jonas paper is our effect on ecology, how our massive group of human may be affecting the planet. He applies this though to the new technological realm, the fact that this can be applied to what we know now as the internet, and the effects of social media is remarkable.

With this understanding from Hans Jonas, we have to take into account those arguments when developing policy in the cyber realm. Policy has to establish proper ethics of this newer realm. It has to take into account how one person may be able to affect a wide population of people or systems. A real world application of this may be how policy is formed regarding the cybersecurity of a power grid system. The policy has to take into account the potential impact on a single person on a wide spreading system.

In the interdisciplinary study of cybercrime, there is also the study of criminal justice in general as a baseline. It was noted that with in-person crimes between offenders and victims, that they would interact in a very specific way. The technological advancements in internet systems has impacted how offenders and victims interact. One of the ways is the physical distance between the 2 groups. Connected internet has given an avenue for a criminal to initiate a crime from a long distance, sometime all the way from other countries speaking another language with different laws. This is complicated even further when a cybercrime happens in a local US state, as some states have varying laws for some of the crimes like cyberstalking and harassment.

Another impact is the usage of possible identity theft to carry out the crimes on the internet. It is one thing to commit these criminal interactions online as the actual person to a victim, the next level is when a criminal has successfully stolen the identity of another person and contacting a victim and abusing their trust. An offender may use this identity to convince a victim to give them confidential information, and also steal their identity as well. This stolen information can be rolled into each other to gain access to a victims banking information, personal information such as a social security number, and possible access to their employment.

These technical advancements also allow some offenders to commit these attempts on a wider scale. More sophisticated attacks can use scripted programs to attack an organization from multiple methods, making it seem like many people are attacking when it is actually just one person or a small group. The victim in this case could be an energy grid system or a hospital network. Cyber technology is obviously used to help protect from such an attack, but sometimes there are technology savvy offenders that know how to use the technology to carry out the crime. They would have intimate knowledge of the systems, find weaknesses, and exploit those weaknesses to their advantage.

The 2 subjects of criminal justice and cybercrime overlap in many ways. Criminal Justice may be the foundational discipline of a cybercrime study. Criminal Justice studies what the crimes are, who commits these crimes, and why certain portions of societies are more susceptible to commit the crimes. In the study of Cybercrime, it builds off of the fundamentals of the study of criminal justice, and applies it to the specialty of crime in the cyber realm. It is stated that in the broad study of Criminal Justice, there may only be a very small section dedicated to cybercrime. There are studies that indicated that a significant portion of in-person crime is now shifting to the internet. These crimes can apparently fall under the category of white-collar crime. This implies that the people initiating these crimes have certain means, such as higher paying employment, and planning and pre-meditation. The overlap of the definition of white collar crimes to cybercrimes is that access to a computer with internet access shows the increase societal evolution of who commits these crimes.

The study as to why these groups carry out these cyber crimes overlaps into these other disciplines. Studying the emerging groups gets into a Sociological study about how society is evolving into more access to computers and connected internet. This also overlaps into Information Technology when discussing the equipment required to carry out the crimes. The study of criminology highlights how these groups of people use the technology, and can even study which countries these cyber crimes are coming from.