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A cybercrime wave is coming – brace yourself

Phones, drones and robots can all be hacked and turned against us. Ex-Interpol agent Marc Goodman warns about the coming crime explosion

By Douglas Heaven

8 April 2015

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“Previously, I never had to worry about a hackable television, a hackable pacemaker, a hackable car, a hackable pet. But now all of this is possible”

Photographed for Âé¶¹´«Ã½ by PÃ¥l Hansen

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