To the casual observer, cybercriminals can look like swashbuckling geniuses.
They possess technical skills formidable enough to penetrate the networks of the biggest companies on the planet.
They cover their tracks using technology that is arcane to most people—VPNs, encrypted chat apps, onion routing, aliases in dark web forums.
So he was caught and told he was caught and then 6 days later they arrested him. During the intervening time he was free to go and buy another laptop.
The idiot reckoned that because of “military law” he could go AWOL to not get arrested, yet when he was told that he had been caught, he did nothing. Intellectual juggernaut this guy
Cops have a saying, “We don’t catch the smart ones.” It is self selection, a lot of it.
You’re not going to believe this, but I’ve got an even better suggestion! Easy to remember too: it’s just one word, and it happens to be the same the previous advice started with.
