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Want to be really impressed and horrified? See if you can dig out the 90s Wired article on the Colombians using an AS/400 to do analysis of copies of telco rec
by rodgerd 12y ago
Want to be really impressed and horrified? See if you can dig out the 90s Wired article on the Colombians using an AS/400 to do analysis of copies of telco records. Whenever they found the logs showing cartel members calling numbers registered to police officers, they'd kill the cartel member.
Big data before it was cool.
- aaron695 12y agoNot wired but - http://cocaine.org/cokecrime/ http://cocaine.org/cokecrime/
- gwern 12y agohttp://www.geek.com/news/outclassed-by-technology-in-the-drug-war-549059/ http://www.geek.com/news/outclassed-by-technology-in-the-dru... http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-cartel-supercomputer-of-1994 http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-cartel-supercomputer-of...