One of the main problems with investigating cybercrime is that cyber police departments are not connected and they are in different countries. Sometimes they co-operate, but not usually. Sometimes cybercrime police are not interested in investigations because the criminals are in another country so the benefits will come to the police in different countries.

The problem is that they are disconnected and so we need to see how they can work more closely together. The idea [of an Internet Interpol started] with the 2001 European Convention on Cybercrime -- but the convention is not about an Internet Interpol.

Its rules help to assist with investigations, but unfortunately, it has a very critical article called 32B. It is about cross border access to infected systems during investigation. It means that police departments are allowed to have cross border access to the computer systems. Because of this article, many countries refused to sign this convention.

After 10 years there are about 30 countries who have signed. These countries include North America, South Africa, Japan and Australia. I don't believe that the United States will open its network for investigators from Russia, China, Latin America or the Middle East. The same is for those countries; they will never open access to the United States or other regions.

This European Convention about Cybercrime is, in my view, dead boring. It doesn't work and people from the European Parliament disagree with me. Unfortunately, I am afraid that we will be waiting a long time before the European Convention introduces it.