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	<title>Thiefhunters in Paradise</title>
	<link>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters</link>
	<description>or, High and Dry on the Streets of Elsewhere</description>
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		<title>A visit to Iran</title>
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Bob Arno here, on our recent visit to Iran. The country has been in the news lately regarding the arrests of 30 persons accused of a U.S.-backed cyber war. We passed through last week, while also visiting Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain, and India. This is not an in-depth analysis about the stability of the present government in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2010/03/iran/</link>
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		<title>Gas pump skimmers attached in 11 seconds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Breaking news from Las Vegas Metro&#8217;s Kim Thomas, the fraud cop featured in my story on credit card skimmers hidden in gas pumps.
Detective Thomas writes:
I read the post you did with my picture. It was very impressive. At the end you said a thief attached a skimmer in eight minutes. I just wanted to give [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2010/03/gas-pump-skimmers/</link>
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		<title>Technicolor Mumbai</title>
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7:00 a.m. in the Colaba Market area, where life is lived outdoors as much as in. Residents were just beginning their day. Someone was asleep on a handcart under a cloth. Others slept on the ground, on palanquins, on steps. A man stood in the road brushing his teeth vigorously with his finger. A boy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2010/03/technicolor-mumbai/</link>
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		<title>Mac history</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These are the Mac laptops I never sold or gave away. Three are in current use. One is a backup. The others have occasionally saved the day by accessing ancient files. Once, not too long ago, I actually had to dig out a SCSI adaptor to attach an old Zip drive to one.
Clockwise from top [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2010/02/mac-history/</link>
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		<title>Behavior analysis and video surveillance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the last week, articles on the killing of Hamas operative Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai, have been a veritable smorgasbord of intriguing intelligence reports. Anyone working intelligence or security analysis has intensely followed the different, and often contradictory, summarizations of which organizations were behind the killing.
Experts and retired intelligence officers in both Israel and Europe [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2010/02/behavior-analysis-video-surveillance/</link>
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		<title>More airport luggage theft</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine the post office delivering your mail to a big open heap, mixed with the envelopes and boxes of 300 strangers. The honor-based system would have you pawing through the pile and taking just what&#8217;s yours. No one would guard the items; no one would check who took what. 
Why not? The airlines do it. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2010/02/airport-luggage-theft-2/</link>
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		<title>Confronting muggers in Panama</title>
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&#8220;You look like a million dallahs,&#8221; the mugger leers at Bob Arno, his gold teeth glinting in the Panamanian sun. The dozen or so men who&#8217;d gathered around us nod and elbow one another.
Bob wears a polyester t-shirt over nylon shorts; acceptable on the tennis court, but otherwise, pretty shabby attire. He wears no jewelry, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2010/02/panama-muggers-2/</link>
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		<title>Theft on a plane</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All this hearsay, lately, about pickpockets onboard airplanes. Even a celebrity-son helped himself to sleeping passengers&#8217; valuables. Here&#8217;s what a thief told me, in pickpocket-lingo:
The Stick, the Shade, and the Wire
&#8220;JD&#8221; an American whiz player, travels to all the top sporting events in the United States. His favorite tool is a garment bag which he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2010/01/theft-on-plane/</link>
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		<title>Pickpockets in Durban, South Africa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“We do what you do,” Bob told the poker-faced pickpocket. “Same job.” 
Looking at his blank expression, it wasn’t clear that he understood. Perhaps he didn’t speak English. If he did understand, his mind must have been racing. What could be worse for a pickpocket than being confronted by a stranger? Even one who claims [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2010/01/pickpockets-durban-south-africa/</link>
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		<title>How to smuggle diamonds</title>
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Intelligence was leaked: stolen diamonds were to be smuggled out of the country in the cast of a man with a broken limb. The airport was put on alert. The man&#8217;s flight number was known.
The man arrived as expected. He was in a wheelchair, his leg in a full cast. Security officers were polite and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2010/01/how-to-smuggle-diamonds/</link>
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		<title>Phone phishing</title>
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If you read this blog, you&#8217;re probably already security-conscious. But this reminder is worth repeating. Don&#8217;t trust anyone.
Sorry.
It&#8217;s a shame that&#8217;s what the world has come to. Even the good samaritan has to be looked at sideways. 
Scammers are now blasting entire towns, phone number by phone number, telling residents that their debit card has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2010/01/phone-phishing/</link>
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		<title>Hotel Oddity #7</title>
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What&#8217;s that spray bottle hanging in the closet of our Tokyo hotel room? It wears a gold necklace from which its explanation dangles.
&#8220;Resesh&#8221; is a fabric freshener with green tea to remove unpleasant odors from your room and clothes.
Sniff, sniff… does my room stink?
Refresh with Resesh. 
Uh…no thanks.
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		<link>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2010/01/hotel-oddity-6/</link>
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		<title>Mugged in Mumbai</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I WANT,&#8221; is the driving force behind mugging: need and greed. But these muggers in India also had intangible desires that compelled them to behave in a way that surprised their victim. After a recent visit to Mumbai, my friend Paul McFarland, a cruise director, filed his report.
Thanking Muggers
After years of travel there are a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2010/01/mugged-mumbai/</link>
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		<title>Hotel oddity #6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[See anything wrong with the chain lock on this door at Miami&#8217;s Radisson Mart Plaza Hotel? It&#8217;s mounted backwards! Upside-down. It&#8217;s useless this way and, worse, gives a false sense of security. Another serious security risk.
Do all the rooms have useless chain latches, or only our room, 612? A polite letter to management brought only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2010/01/hotel-oddity-5/</link>
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		<title>Mac + paperclip = fire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone remember this old relic? 
We were so thrilled with it. We&#8217;d spent a year in Africa and needed a laptop. Apple didn&#8217;t make one yet, so we had to buy a DOS machine. Shortly after we got home, Apple came out with a luggable.
Bob and I were on a cruise ship with our Mac [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/12/mac-paperclip-fire/</link>
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