Sunday, 1 March 2009

Old School Yakuza Feeling the Heat from GangsterNerds

The Yakuza"Japans organised-crime groups that date from the 17th century"are getting squeezed.

The floundering economy has eaten into revenue from traditional activities that required muscle, such as gambling, prostitution & loan-sharking. To compensate the groups have ploughed into cybercrime giving rise to a new generation of gangster-nerds.

Link:
http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13184963

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