Drug Traffickers Take Advantage of Internet, U.S. Official Says

The Internet and cellular telephones are making drug traffickers harder than ever to catch and the job will only become more difficult as technology develops, a U.S. anti-drug official said. Messages in Internet chat rooms, where drug smugglers in Latin America can arrange cocaine deliveries in London or Berlin, are almost impossible to intercept and cellular phone text messages cannot be tracked by authorities, Mark Malcolm, intelligence analyst at the United States Drug Enforcement Administration, told an international drug conference in Lima.