<story><title>Manafort Left an Incriminating Paper Trail Converting PDFs to Word</title><url>https://slate.com/technology/2018/02/paul-manafort-couldnt-convert-pdfs-to-word-documents.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lisper</author><text>Nixon was caught because he taped himself obstructing justice.  Manafort was caught because he emailed incriminating documents in the clear.  How the hell are we going to catch criminals who somehow avoid doing monumentally stupid things?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lovefromatx</author><text>Different context but Buffett&amp;#x27;s quote “If a cop follows you for 500 miles, you’re going to get a ticket,” applies here. If you are a criminal you don&amp;#x27;t violate only one law. You tend to violate multiple laws and at some point you are going to be sloppy.</text></comment>
<story><title>Manafort Left an Incriminating Paper Trail Converting PDFs to Word</title><url>https://slate.com/technology/2018/02/paul-manafort-couldnt-convert-pdfs-to-word-documents.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lisper</author><text>Nixon was caught because he taped himself obstructing justice.  Manafort was caught because he emailed incriminating documents in the clear.  How the hell are we going to catch criminals who somehow avoid doing monumentally stupid things?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>m-watson</author><text>I suppose we currently are not and don&amp;#x27;t?  I think a big aspect of this is that everyone makes mistakes and with an increasingly interconnected, complicated, and honestly insecure digital world those mistakes are just going to be amplified.</text></comment>