Detective work is as often as much about looking for patterns in a crime’s cover-up to then target ways to capture or prevent future ones. So when the anti-fraud team at online payments provider PayPal noticed that Russian criminals trying to break their way in were using multiple servers to bounce the internet packets around the world and so hide the original it became the signal for how to block them – if a message came in with more than…

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