Future Crimes

The successful decoding of the human genome was a phenomenal scientific achievement.  For the first time in the world’s history, the entire genetic code of the human species was fully available to scientific researchers.  The fantastic accomplishment will provide untold advances in medicine and ... Read More

Increasingly innovative computer scripts are being created that automate entire criminal processes—processes that, in the past, used to require human intervention.  Don’t like your boss?  Threaten to tell his wife about the affair with his secretary unless he pays you to keep quiet.  The problem ... Read More

Crowdsourcing began as a legitimate tool to leverage the wisdom of the crowds to solve complex business and scientific challenges. Unfortunately, these very same techniques are increasingly being adopted by the criminal underground for nefarious purposes. The concept of crowdsourcing first ... Read More

Criminal Implications of Implantable Medical Devices   Since the dawn of the 1970′s television action show the Six Million Dollar Man, the public has been fascinated by bionics and the integration of technology into the human body.  What once seemed to be a far-off science fiction fantasy, is ... Read More

As we come to rely more and more upon technology as a filter for our own life experiences, opportunities to bend reality abound.  In theory, none of this is new.   Ask anybody who has ever been on an online dating site and they will tell you what you see is not always what you get.  Yet as ... Read More

Recently a company in the Netherlands known as “Moddr.Net” released a software application allowing users to commit “virtual suicide.”  Their free product, the “Web 2.0 Suicide Machine” allows users to permanently and irrevocably delete their accounts from social networking sites such as Facebook ... Read More