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6 bookmarks tagged “crime”

Crooks’ Mistaken Bet on Encrypted Phones

newyorker.com/magazine/2023/04/24/crooks-mistaken-bet-on-encrypted-phones
Drug syndicates and other criminal groups bought into the idea that a new kind of phone network couldn’t be infiltrated by cops. They were wrong—big time.

The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero

bam.kalzumeus.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fraud/
Counterintuitively, businesses, customers, and society prefer having fraud to what they'd need to do to not have it.

VICE - How Police Secretly Took Over a Global Phone Network for Organized Crime

vice.com/en_us/article/3aza95/how-police-took-over-encrochat-hacked

The Perfect Irony That ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ Film Was Also a Real-Life Scam - MEL Magazine

melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-perfect-irony-that-the-wolf-of-wall-street-was-also-a-real-life-scam

The Chaotic Triumph of Arron Banks, the “Bad Boy of Brexit” | The New Yorker

newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/25/the-chaotic-triumph-of-arron-banks-the-bad-boy-of-brexit

How Japan Has Virtually Eliminated Shooting Deaths - The Atlantic

theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/07/a-land-without-guns-how-japan-has-virtually-eliminated-shooting-deaths/260189/
In part by forbidding almost all forms of firearm ownership, the country has as few as two gun-related homicides a year.