TO CATCH A THIEF

To Catch a Thief

To catch a thief, spy, money launderer, insider trader, tax evader, narcotics trafficker or anyone exhibiting patterns of "noncompliant" behavior can be effectively performed using a combination of strategic (proactive) and tactical (reactive) analytical techniques. The exact definition of a noncompliant pattern will vary according to the activities occurring within the domain for which it is b...

LinguaNet:...SETTING A LINGUIST TO CATCH A THIEF

Frontier controls in Europe are fading, some have vanished. Police communication across those frontiers is not however keeping pace with the changes. Whereas criminals and their spoils now move with greater freedom, the transmission of cross frontier police messages concerning such movements are hindered by a multitude of linguistic, procedural, administrative and legal impediments. The Europea...

To Catch a Predator

This paper is about moral panics over contemporary technology, which I call " technopanics. " I use two examples, the cyberporn panic of 1996 and the contemporary panic over online predators and MySpace, to demonstrate the links between media coverage and content legislation. In both cases, Internet content legislation is directly linked to media-fueled moral panics that concern uses of technol...

Glaucoma: Silent Thief of Sight

To catch a falling robber

We consider a Cops-and-Robber game played on the subsets of an n-set. The robber starts at the full set; the cops start at the empty set. In each round, each cop moves up one level by gaining an element, and the robber moves down one level by discarding an element. The question is how many cops are needed to ensure catching the robber when the robber reaches the middle level. Alan Hill posed th...