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The worrying spectre of African cyber crime

If cyber crime is not dealt with proactively, it will derail the continent’s future.

25 April 2018

When one percenter biker gangs, so-called for their associated criminality, first surfaced in the US, nobody believed they were a problem. It took a long time before national law officials such as the FBI even considered such gangs to be as threatening as the mafia or drug cartels. By the time this particular penny dropped, the gangs had established international criminal networks. Even today, it is difficult for many of us to associate biker gangs as the equal to Colombian cartels.

That may be because such bikers seem so everyman: restless rebels who only want to live their lives, not kingpins of vast criminal organisations. Likewise, we have a hard time grasping the nature of cyber crime. It’s something that happens to other people and places.

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