Mike Cooper
@coop
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Author and tinkerer: crime, finance, and technology.
Boston
Joined November 2009
Wait, there are ATMs still running Win XP?? No wonder jackpotting is on.
krebsonsecurity.com
ATM "jackpotting" -- a sophisticated crime in which thieves install malicious software and/or hardware at ATMs that forces the machines to spit out huge volumes of cash on demand -- has long been a...
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Excellent Guardian piece on interrogation. Coercion does NOT work Really, anyone with teenagers should know that.
theguardian.com
The long read: Expert interrogators know torture doesn’t work – but until now, nobody could prove it. By analysing hundreds of top-secret interviews with terror suspects, two British scientists have...
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New Russian CQB spec-forces bullpup fires 12.7mm rounds (!) Man, they want to put their enemies DOWN.
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Seattle Times on THE DOWNSIDE: "It’s a pleasure to watch pros doing what they do best"
seattletimes.com
takes a look at Mike Cooper’s engrossing heist novel “The Downside” and Colin Cotterill’s “The Rat Catchers’ Olympics,” starring Dr. Siri Paiboun.
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The Sunday Times liked THE DOWNSIDE: "whip-smart dialogue and a chicane of plot twists"
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If your product makes 1.3 billion people unhappy (really!), maybe you're doing something wrong? #Facebook.
qz.com
Social media is a great way to connect with family, friends, and strangers around the globe, but spending too much time on any platform can create dissatisfaction.
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"99% people who join multilevel-marketing co's lose money".For whom, exactly, is that a "brilliant business model"?
qz.com
“I was urged to stop paying my bills to invest in more inventory. I was urged to get rid of television. I was urged to pawn my vehicle. I just had to get on anxiety meds over all of it because I’ve...
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That's an interesting article. Didn't realize how intense it had gotten
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"Inside the world of Silicon Valley's 'coasters' - millionaire engineers who get paid gobs of money and barely work"
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Russian troll-bots are pushing #civilwar - as in, a new US civil war Sounds like "interference" to me.
dailykos.com
If you go on Twitter and search “#civilwar” you will be horrified, disgusted and enraged at best, alarmed at worst. This is basically a thread for Trump supporters to threaten the country with civil...
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Charming BBC video on recent World Dog Surfing Championships: They're more agile than me, for sure.
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Tech millionaire: "[because of robots] within 30 years, half of humanity won’t have a job" Thanks man.
marketwatch.com
The trendy notion among some of the world’s best and brightest: The robots are taking over. Tesla’s Elon Musk is worried about it. So is Microsoft’s Bill Gates. And professor Stephen Hawking, too....
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What everyone needs in their pocket: a real, working .22 pistol that folds up to 1/3 the size of a phone
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Having grown up in Missouri, I'm interested to see the NAACP has issued a travel warning for the state:
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Interview w top Scrabble champions: Strategy, endgame tactics - fascinating (to a certain kind of mind).
slate.com
Scrabble has a new champion. He is Will Anderson, a 32-year-old textbook editor who began playing competitively just eight years ago; his word game of...
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Good metric for being a successful (thriller) author: Being able to afford a sub to Jane's Intelligence Review. Not there yet!.
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Robot safecracker: When they say "no job is secure" they mean it!.
bbc.com
To rapturous applause, hackers bust open a leading brand of safe with a small robot at Def Con.
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"Wildly inventive": a starred PW review for THE DOWNSIDE, coming in Sept .
publishersweekly.com
Finn, the star of this wildly inventive caper novel from Thriller Award–finalist Cooper (Full Ratchet), specializes in thefts of...
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"Law enforcement took more stuff from people than burglars did last year" That's one way to keep taxes low.
washingtonpost.com
Federal asset forfeitures topped burglary losses for the first time in 2014.
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