Victor Loux Bookmarks Tag: crime

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.