This is an I-Heart podcast.

This is Solvable.

I'm Ronald Young Jr.

We have a whole generation that have grown up as virtual shoplifters, pirating music, pirating movies.

By time they're in college, they're pirating crack software.

So for that cohort, the line between right and wrong becomes a little blurred.

I went to college in 2002. Back then, we were still on Black Planet. between right and wrong becomes a little blurred.

I went to college in 2002.

Back then, we were still on Black Planet using live journal, exchanging AOL screen names, and

leaving up pointed emo song lyrics as a subliminal away message for the crush who broke

our hearts.

And I was also a virtual shoplifter. Before we had music streamers, before Apple

music and Spotify, we downloaded everything from what we're called peer-to-peer networks,

music, movies, that hot new Warcraft game we wanted to play. And for poor college students,

this was just the exciting new way of experiencing the world.

We didn't say anything wrong with what we were doing.

It was predicted that this year, cybercrime would cost the global economy just over $1 trillion U.S. dollars.

To put that in perspective, that's like over 6 million Teslas being stolen, $150,000 each,

or approximately three Hope Diamonds valued at $350 million.

It's just about equal to the entire infrastructure bill President Biden just signed into law.

Some estimate that if cybercrime is not addressed, it could cost the global economy

over $10 trillion by 2025. It would seem that with every advancement in technology,

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