Through The Wire: SEC Turns Its Sights On Insider Trading, Hacking And Data Thievery

There once existed a time when a crew of skydiving surfers could throw on surprisingly well crafted ex-president masks, stroll into a cash-heavy bank and rob the institution blind. There was a time when the weapon of choice for a bank robbery was a sawn off shotgun and an ingenious disguise. There was a time when a handwritten note riddled with grammatical errors was handed over to a shaking bank teller or power tools and explosives were used to bust open vault doors as a get-away driver idled at the curb waiting for the right moment to disappear in a fog of tire smoke. But that time has faded. That time is over. The ex-presidents are finished, and new, invisible and far more effective crews are moving in and taking over the very old and familiar business model of robbery.