The Committee to Nuke Elysium

Cybergangs rise and fall in varying degrees of anonymity and alliances with Russian, Chinese and other governments that are more ad hoc than understood. Norms of behavior among individuals and governments are a moving target. Crimes are not solved as much as controlled, through informal alliances of small agencies within and outside the state, or when there is publicity of the crimes that embarrasses higher ups in government.

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In this world, criminals help the Russian military invade Georgia by blowing out many of that country’s computers, and spam from Nigeria has coded instructions for an attempted coup in the Ivory Coast. Over dozens of scams, only a handful of people are nailed. Far more are protected.