Drug gangs kidnap cyber pros to hack into banks

motherboard.tv — It’s not the subplot to a Jerry Bruckheimer movie: drug dealers in Mexico really are kidnapping computer whizzes and forcing them to hack into bank systems and program credit card fraud scams in order to acquire additional funds on top of what they haul in from selling drugs. Jul 13, 2011 View in Crawl 4

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Drug gangs kidnap cyber pros to hack into banks

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justa__free__thinker Jul 14, 2011

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Sounds like swordfish.

richardborean Jul 14, 2011

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Seriously, how much more s**t are the drug cartels going to have to pull before our government realizes the war on drugs is f**king this country over on so many different levels every day?

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ajajadude Jul 14, 2011

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Do you honestly think cartels will just up and disappear because we've legalized drugs? Did organized crime in the US disappear when prohibition ended?Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.

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rmxz Jul 14, 2011

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> Do you honestly think cartels will just up and disappear because we've legalized drugs?

Ne never said they'd disappear.

I think they'll either start up talks with investment bankers to take their then-legal drug manufacturing operations public; and/or sell out to the big tobacco companies that are already in a similar industry.

Easier and far more profitable than kidnapping software hackers.

thickape Jul 14, 2011

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And not only this country. Drugs wreck lives. The choice is: middle class lives derailed or poor people's lives ended. Right now we are choosing the latter by choosing prohibition.