How about a war on credit card fraud instead

[dumpthemonarchy]

How about a war on credit card fraud? In Russia, the land of Putin and law and order supposedly, many computer hackers work from there.

It would seem more productive than the current failed war on drugs. I have been told that farmers in eastern Europe are growing pot by the ton. Think about it, in Albania, which is a narco-state, they are growing everything they can and there is no police. Can't stop the drug flow, but they have to crack down on credit card fraud.

 

[PoisonPete2]

The Big Circle Boys used to be the big credit card frauders in Canada (often using bin readers in restaraunts), but now the eastern Europeans are ahead just for the amount of card fraud on the net. The card companies just roll their insurance loss adjustments into costs and charge back to the consumer. No big deal to them, so there is no organized interest in doing much. Slippery slope from the point of view of privacy as per monitoring activity on the Net.

As to the war on drugs, it is a huge industry for the U.S. It allows them to operate on foreign soil, spying and finance other endevours with the profit made through interdiction and reselling (as per the Iran / Contra, Noriega connection, all the way back to Air America / Montinyar). With the influence the U.S. government excersises internationally on this 'war on drugs' and the benefit to privatized prisons stateside, the idea of 'harm reduction' does not have the same ring as overpowering private citizens at 6am with force of arms to bust a flower garden. It is an everyday thing in Canada with over 20,000 people a year convicted on simple possession.