Byline: Elwin Green

Oct. 4--The world of online gaming is not that different from the real world: There are those who play by the rules and those who cheat. The issues of security and ethics in cyberspace provide a preview of problems that will emerge in the next generation of computing, according to one of the presenters at a conference on electronic crime being held in Oakland today and tomorrow.

Gary McGraw, chief technology officer of Cigital Inc., a software security firm, said the client-server architecture of "massively multiplayer online roleplaying games," which allows a hundred of thousands of people to play a game at the same time, is "catching on in other ...