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Angry Jesus writes:
Popular Science has a story about the Zetas drug cartel's deployment and use of a vast radio network across much of Mexico and hints at their use of Big-Data/NSA style analysis of thousands of data feeds.
The central character of the story is nondescript radio and car-alarm installer, but once he was captured by US authorities it appears that the Zetas kidnapped the IT talent they needed to keep their networks up and running.
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How the Zetas Cartel Took Over Mexico With Radios
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(Score: 5, Informative) by Angry Jesus on Sunday March 30 2014, @03:52PM
> And you think those on the illegal side will just suddenly go straight and accept making alot less?
> Unlikely. Other types of crime would skyrocket as they found new niches.
That is what happened after prohibition was repealed. It took at least an entire generation before the crime syndicates that prohibition created were mostly stamped out. But that doesn't mean repealing prohibition was the wrong move. Sometimes (often in fact) there are no good solutions, only the least worst choice. We shouldn't let the fact that we have to choose between two distasteful options blind us to the fact that one option is still best choice.