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An article in yesterday’s DiarioExtra provides some disturbing numbers about the increasing crime rates and the decreasing sentencing of the perpetrators. The article begins as follows.
The figures released by specialists in the fourth Jurisis Victimology Impunómetro report are alarming, showing that in 2009 95% of complaints filed had no sentence. This means that the total [...]

Earlier I wrote about some serious problems with online banking, and even had a letter to to the editor published in A.M. Costa Rica. (And no, if you visit the link, it’s not the article about the hookers—you have to scroll down the page some). After that, I received some nice comments and offers of [...]

2010 will, I predict, be the year that banks must change how they do business online. Each day there are new reports of the dramatic increase in cyber crime. Increasingly, the various anti-virus products are unable to detect and protect against mal-ware called “trojans,” and law enforcement is unable to even identify many of the [...]