$3.2 Million Jewelry Store Theft

January 14th, 2010 admin

I’ve written about this sort of thing before: A robber bored a hole through the wall of jewelry shop and walked off with about 200 luxury watches worth 300 million yen ($3.2 million) in Tokyo’s upscale Ginza district, police said Saturday. From Secrets and Lies, p. 318: Threat modeling is, for the most part, ad hoc. You think about the…


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