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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday March 11 2017, @09:44AM   Printer-friendly
from the technology-is-the-new-Baba-Yaga dept.

Sounds plausible. Banks do use technology for their activities:

Technology is now at the "root" of all serious criminality, says Europe's police agency. The returns generated by document fraud, money laundering and online trade in illegal goods helps to pay for other damaging crimes, said Europol. The wider use of technology by criminal gangs poses the "greatest challenge" to police forces, it said in a study[PDF]. It revealed that Europol is currently tracking 5,000 separate international organised crime groups.

[...] The "comprehensive" study of organised crime in Europe found a wide range of crime groups ranging from loose networks of individual criminals up to large trans-national bodies that generate profits which rival those of legitimate multi-national corporations.


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  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday March 11 2017, @12:25PM (1 child)

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Saturday March 11 2017, @12:25PM (#477719) Journal

    When the technology of blades was invented, criminals used that to threaten and/or kill people. Same with the invention of guns, or any other technology that can be used to kill. When the technology of door locks was invented and applied, criminals used the technology of lock picking to get around it. When the car was invented and widespread, criminals used that technology to quickly get away from the crime scene.

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  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Saturday March 11 2017, @04:45PM

    by Gaaark (41) on Saturday March 11 2017, @04:45PM (#477780) Journal

    Hey, now... learning to write seems to have you thinking like a criminal. This will not do!

    I shall now use my new technology of "Wooba wooba, biggus dickus, Romanes eunt domus" to cancel out all further crime thinking you may be thinking while writing!

    --People's Front of Judea

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