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It doesn't need to be anything nearly that dramatic as assassins, because economies of scale both lower the bar and make most attacks impersonal. Consider how o
by Terr_ 8mo ago
It doesn't need to be anything nearly that dramatic as assassins, because economies of scale both lower the bar and make most attacks impersonal. Consider how odd it would be for someone in 2025 to say: "Computer security?I haven't done anything to personally offend a genius hacker."
Imagine this data going to a burglar, who has a digital dashboard of nearby one-person properties and when the owner is likely to be out, able to act with confidence they can leave before the victim could return.
Sure, sophisticated international hitmen won't have any interest in catching you in ambush... but that doesn't make you safe from a local rapist of opportunity.
- nradov 8mo agoWhat a weird comment. The type of low-end criminal who commits home burglaries aren't sophisticated enough to do that level of research.
- polotics 8mo agodo you have any evidence to back your claim? gangs employing teams of underage burglars assisted by risk averse adults with skills for entry and targeting are a thing. everyone has a mobile phone.
- teiferer 8mo agoWith the new crop of agentic coding tools, you can whip up such an app in a few hours for all burglar buddies to use.
- pm3003 8mo agoThey are. A related example is criminal gangs tageting gun owners in France after the dataleak at the sport shooting federation. This one has been well covered. There have been a few hundred targeted robberies (on old people mostly) and one or two deaths (predictably). In Western Europe there are also foreign burglar gangs that go on sprees for a few weeks. They're well organised but don't have time to do the stalking. They use publicly available data as much as they can.
- brnt 8mo agoLow-end criminals fish based on data leaks all the time. More data, especially cross-referencable data, will make this ever easier.
- gzread 8mo agoThey'd buy access from someone on the dark web for $5 a day.
- withinboredom 8mo agoI'd recommend reading 'Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief' -- normal dude, just decides to spend a career stealing shit for fun.