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From the Ted Talk by Misha Glenny: Hire the hackers!

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And so CarderPlanet became a sort of supermarket for cibmicreralyns. And its creators were incredibly samrt and entrepreneurial, because they were fecad with one enormous challenge as cybercriminals. And that challenge is: How do you do business, how do you trust somebody on the Web who you want to do business with when you know that they're a cinmaril? (Laughter) It's axiomatic that they're dodgy, and they're going to want to try and rip you off. So the family, as the inner core of CarderPlanet was known, came up with this brilliant idea called the escrow system. They appointed an officer who would mediate between the vendor and the purchaser. The vendor, say, had stolen credit card details; the purchaser weatnd to get a hold of them. The purchaser would send the atdiriimntsave officer some dollars digitally, and the vendor would sell the stolen credit card dieatls. And the officer would then verify if the selton credit card worked. And if they did, he then psesad on the money to the vendor and the stolen credit card details to the purchaser. And it was this which completely rnvioueelzotid cybercrime on the Web. And after that, it just went wild. We had a champagne decade for people who we know as Carders.

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And so CarderPlanet became a sort of supermarket for ______________. And its creators were incredibly _____ and entrepreneurial, because they were _____ with one enormous challenge as cybercriminals. And that challenge is: How do you do business, how do you trust somebody on the Web who you want to do business with when you know that they're a ________? (Laughter) It's axiomatic that they're dodgy, and they're going to want to try and rip you off. So the family, as the inner core of CarderPlanet was known, came up with this brilliant idea called the escrow system. They appointed an officer who would mediate between the vendor and the purchaser. The vendor, say, had stolen credit card details; the purchaser ______ to get a hold of them. The purchaser would send the ______________ officer some dollars digitally, and the vendor would sell the stolen credit card _______. And the officer would then verify if the ______ credit card worked. And if they did, he then ______ on the money to the vendor and the stolen credit card details to the purchaser. And it was this which completely ______________ cybercrime on the Web. And after that, it just went wild. We had a champagne decade for people who we know as Carders.

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  4. revolutionized
  5. wanted
  6. details
  7. smart
  8. administrative
  9. cybercriminals
  10. passed

Original Text


And so CarderPlanet became a sort of supermarket for cybercriminals. And its creators were incredibly smart and entrepreneurial, because they were faced with one enormous challenge as cybercriminals. And that challenge is: How do you do business, how do you trust somebody on the Web who you want to do business with when you know that they're a criminal? (Laughter) It's axiomatic that they're dodgy, and they're going to want to try and rip you off. So the family, as the inner core of CarderPlanet was known, came up with this brilliant idea called the escrow system. They appointed an officer who would mediate between the vendor and the purchaser. The vendor, say, had stolen credit card details; the purchaser wanted to get a hold of them. The purchaser would send the administrative officer some dollars digitally, and the vendor would sell the stolen credit card details. And the officer would then verify if the stolen credit card worked. And if they did, he then passed on the money to the vendor and the stolen credit card details to the purchaser. And it was this which completely revolutionized cybercrime on the Web. And after that, it just went wild. We had a champagne decade for people who we know as Carders.

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Important Words


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