Ghost students: The new enrollment fraud scheme Minnesota two-year colleges are fighting

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3. Of course it is. As William Gibson likes to say, "The street finds its own uses for things."

Every advancement that helps civilians can also help armies; every advancement that helps honest people can also help criminals. The big difference is that criminals are looking harder for new opportunities than even the greediest venture capitalist, and are attuned to recognize them ASAP; their whole methodology relies on being quicker to realize that an opportunity even exists before their victims do. Governments, and even legitimate businesses, are slower to realize there's an exploitable loophole inherent in every innovation.