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...crack down but we still have a long way to go," says a senior Microsoft anti-piracy attorney. "Hard-core criminals will not be deterred as long as the profits are high and the risks are low." Piracy charges don't seem to have deterred Murray-Cowan. As long as laws in the E.U. differ and trafficking in software is seen as a great business venture, new high-tech crime units are likely to remain busy...
...local assets, like the Filipino agents who disguise themselves as ice-cream vendors or beauticians, to track down terrorists. "The feeling here," says a senior French investigator, "is that the Americans are doing an excellent job in police and intelligence terms." Not everything goes according to plan. High-tech listening devices are of no use if nobody sends an electronic message. "The bad guys," says a Western diplomat in Islamabad, "have been taught that talking on cell phones or sat phones is a no-no. Now they are delivering messages on motorcycles." Raids on Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan aimed...
...government handed FARC a huge swath of land in the middle of Colombia, and FARC’s forces are by no means inconsiderable—they are stronger than Colombia’s. FARC’s members are volunteers being well-paid and equipped with high-tech weaponry, all financed by the lucrative drug trade. Colombia’s government relies on the largesse of US taxpayers and the 3.5 percent of its GDP Lee mentions to fund a conscript army with devastatingly low morale. Just what is Lee’s proposal for a resounding defeat...
Need cheering up? Here's a good news story. The world's fifth largest country--with a history of military rule and endemic corruption--holds a free and fair presidential election. All voters, even in remote villages, cast their ballots on high-tech electronic machines of a kind that make the conduct of elections in, say, Florida, look shamefully outmoded. The candidate who wins the most support in the first round of voting has made his name criticizing the nation's power elite. But the results are accepted by all, and the country begins a three-week campaign before...
...high-tech gadgets and tests won't matter a bit if evidence isn't meticulously gathered at the scene of a crime. It's the little things that count-a stray hair, a piece of lint, a smudge of mud. This trail of tiny crumbs could ultimately lead straight to the killer...