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Scam Centres Are Not Fraud. They Are Infrastructure.
Scam centres persist not because enforcement fails, but because disruption never reaches the real choke points: labour control, payment rails, and jurisdictional protection.
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Digital Crime Transformation
Research on how crime adapts to commercial infrastructure, how enforcement lags behind scale, and how illicit and strategic actors increasingly operate through the same systems. Authored by Roman Khimich.
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Cheap Coercion Changes Power Before It Changes Law
By the time a coercive system has a settled regulatory label, the underlying power shift has often already happened. Why institutions systematically miss the transition.
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What Is Distributed Coercion?
Distributed coercion describes a condition in which the ability to intimidate, compel, disrupt, or physically harm others becomes modular, networked, and purchasable — and why existing security frameworks systematically under-read the shift.
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Why the Gulf Is an Early Theater for Distributed Coercion Risk
The Gulf combines high-value targets, dense infrastructure exposure, maritime vulnerability, and strong incentives for adversaries to operate at distance. It is a place where cheap coercion can produce expensive consequences.
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From Cybercrime to Platform-Enabled Crime
The language of cybercrime often misses the way criminal activity now operates through mainstream commercial infrastructure rather than outside it.