E-crime strategy is not much cop

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The reporting processes for electronic crime are still too complex for consumers and businesses

The principle of Occam’s Razor says that when all of a number of possible solutions are equal, you should always choose the simplest. Clearly nobody told the authorities in charge of tackling the g...

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