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From Crowdsourcing to Crimesourcing: The Rise of Distributed Criminality

Crowdsourcing began as a legitimate tool to leverage the wisdom of the crowds to solve complex business and scientific challenges…

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Dealing Crack? There’s an app for that too!

Turn your iPhone into a “Cartel-o-Phone” Well it was just a matter of time before somebody figured this one out.  Recently an iPhone developer created an application known as “Drug Lords,” a program that would enable both drug-dealers and users to find one another in real time and space, thanks to the mobile phone’s built-in [...]

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Spoofing Life: Reality Altering Technology Enables Crime

As we come to rely more and more upon technology as a filter for our life experiences, opportunities to bend reality abound. In theory, none of this is new.

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Mobile Phone Botnets: Is Your Refrigerator Next?

For some time now, experts in the information security community have been concerned about the possibility of  mobile phone botnets: now it appears these fears may have been well-grounded, as suggested in the article below.   While there are billions of desktop and portable computers in the world, there are billions more mobile phones.  As [...]

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Unlawful Assembly in Virtual Spaces Now Also Illegal

Many governments around the world have criminal statutes preventing “unlawful assembly” crimes.  Generally speaking, an unlawful assembly refers to a gathering of individuals who come together in order to commit an unlawful act or to behave in a violent, boisterous or tumultuous manner.  While nations around the world differ in their tolerance of public gatherings, [...]

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