Your new book is called Future Crimes. How is crime changing?
In the old days, you buy a gun or a knife, you go hide in a dark alley until some sucker walks by and you say, "Give me your wallet". Good business model, but you can only rob four or five people a day. However, with Moore's law of technological progress comes Moore's outlaw, and so we're seeing a paradigm shift in crime. In one hack of the US retailer Target in 2013, over a third of Americans were victims, including tens of millions of people who had their bank details stolen. So one individual can now rob 100 million people. That has never been possible before and it's because we're all connected via vulnerable technology.
You started out as a police officer. How did you become interested in cybercrime?
I was the technical genius in the Los Angeles Police ...
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