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Kobe Bryant is 'The Black Mamba'

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Talking Point Detective2/20/2011 8:08:21 am PST

re: #427 laZardo

Which is why they pay off the tech wizards to do their own bidding. A technique that corporations might want to try with the folks jailbreaking their fancy gadgets.

Just listened to this interview yesterday.

npr.org

Fighting Cybercrime, One Digital Thug At A Time

California surfer and computer whiz Barrett Lyon founded an Internet security company after dropping out of college.

Attacking corporate Web sites and stealing personal financial information is no longer just the work of hackers. These days the mob is also taking an interest.

From San Francisco to Costa Rica to London to Russia, Joseph Menn’s new book, Fatal System Error: The Hunt for the New Crime Lords Who Are Bringing Down the Internet, follows the evolution of digital crime from small-time thieving to organized gangs — all vying for a piece of a trillion-dollar pie.

Menn follows the book’s hero — real-life cybercrime fighter Barrett Lyon — on a global investigation that uncovers alliances between the Russian mafia and the Russian government, and reveals how La Cosa Nostra and the Russians fight it out for control of the Internet’s massive spoils.

This guy was a hacker as a kid and now is hired by companies to catch hackers. Scary stuff.