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<pre wrap="">Abusing their talents
By Emma Hughes
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Friday, 12 December 2008, 11:25
<b class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>SEVERAL REPORTS<span
class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b> have predicted that the current economic downturn will
turn techies to crime, using their computer skills for nefarious purposes.
Companies such as PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Finjan have both
predicted that some employees will turn to crime next year in order to
make a few bob, and some are being investigated already.
The kind of crimes we're talking about here are credit card fraud,
selling off financial or intellectual information and basically abusing
their talents for profit.
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"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." Thomas Jefferson, 1802</pre>
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