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Somebody should give them a medal. I suspect that this sort of thing is an underutilized avenue of attack against terrorists and gangs. The surface area of attack has grown exponentially since e.g. the kind of thing seen in The Wire, and the general public is mostly ignorant of opsec.


Agreed, instead they got thrown the book at them.


Could we perhaps automate the process using machine learning to produce seed capital for a new VC fund?

edit - Call it 'Fundamental'.

edit2 - our brand consultants rejected 'The Foundation' as too obvious and thought 'Bottom Capital' wouldn't play well in the market.


“Bottom Capital” is brilliant


Thanks, is nice to have at least some positive feedback.

I suppose given my comment makes light of venture capital, machine learning, crowdfunding, catfishing victims, ISIS and Al-Qaeda, I should have suspected it might be unpopular with a fairly wide cross section of HN. ;)




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