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Data Mining, Cocaine and Secrecy

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the now-they-probably-have-clusters dept.

hightimes writes: "Business 2.0 uncovers one of the world's most sophisticated IT network in where else, Colombia. According to the story, Colombian drug cartels have spent billions of dollars to build a huge infrastructure that's helping them smuggle more dope than ever before." Even though this is about a raid that took place most of a decade ago, it's an interesting example of the power (and potential abuse) of large-scale data mining.

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  1. Well... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey, are they hiring?

    1. Re:Well... by warpSpeed · · Score: 5, Funny

      Prolly, but I'm sure it would be a life time career move. And if you screw up, a PHB is the least of your concerns, you'll be sleeping with the fishes.

  2. Re:Computers by GodInHell · · Score: 5, Funny

    What were they trying to do? Send cocaine over Cat5 Cabling?

    Heh, Packet sniffing takes on whole new dimensions.

    -GiH
    A goose is loose in the sluce for juice.

  3. Dopewars by akiy · · Score: 5, Funny
    And you thought all of those hours you spent playing Dopewars were all just a simulation...

    (Dopewars: Unix, Palm, Macintosh, and Windows versions.)

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  4. Just wait till they get the bill from Oracle... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    They'll have to buy a client license for every drug user they supply. That should promptly clean out their "unlimited" budget.

    1. Re:Just wait till they get the bill from Oracle... by Tackhead · · Score: 5, Funny
      > Hah, just wait until they get the "audit or else" order from M$. Man, talk about organized crime warfare. This could make the St. Valentine's Day Massacre look like a water-pistol fight.

      Lessee here...

      Step 1) Columbian drug lords vs. BSA lawyers.

      Step 2) Make the St. Valentine's Day Massacre look like water pistol fight.

      Step 3) ???^H^H^HPay-per-view live video on Slashdot!

      Step 4) PROFIT!

  5. And of course... by Codex+The+Sloth · · Score: 5, Funny

    They must be using Snort for intrusion detection.

    Snif snif ...

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  6. Not suprising by prockcore · · Score: 4, Funny

    With the amount of cocaine and coffee in columbia, i'm suprised they didn't build the entire infrastructure in a single evening. Followed by cleaning the entire country top to bottom.

  7. i can see it now... by bilbobuggins · · Score: 5, Funny
    when your warehouse in Poughkeepsie automatically links up with your hit men in Columbia...


    ...that's 1 degree of seperation. That's business w/ .NET.


    (yeah, it was low;)

  8. Cue the 70s music... by selan · · Score: 4, Funny
    ba da da DUM ba da DUM
    ba da da DUM ba da DUM

    If you wanna deal, you gotta use SQL, cocaine
    If you wanna get stoned, you gotta write the code, cocaine
    Data mine, data mine, data mine, COCAINE

    ba da da DUM ba da DUM
    ba da da DUM ba da DUM...

    Data mine, data mine, data mine, COCAINE