We talk with Dr Jonathan Lusthaus about how he came to research cybercriminals as people around the world and the impact that relationships, educational traditions and opportunity might have in pulling people toward a life of crime
About our Guest:
Dr. Jonathan Lusthaus
https://www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/people/jonathan-lusthaus#/
Articles Mentioned in this episode:
Industry of Anonymity: Inside the Business of Cybercrime by Jonathan Lusthaus
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38502106-industry-of-anonymity
DarkMarket: Cyberthieves, Cybercops and You by Misha Glenny
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11024696-darkmarket
Jonathan Lusthaus (2012) Trust in the world of cybercrime, Global Crime, 13:2, 71-94, DOI: 10.1080/17440572.2012.674183
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17440572.2012.674183
J. Lusthaus, M. Bruce and N. Phair, "Mapping the Geography of Cybercrime: A Review of Indices of Digital Offending by Country," 2020 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW), Genoa, Italy, 2020, pp. 448-453, doi: 10.1109/EuroSPW51379.2020.00066.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9229673
Other:
Flappy Bird.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flappy_Bird
The voice sample is from the Prelinger archive at archive.org. An important resource.
The song this week is called "Departed on Platform 2". I write all the songs we use on the show, I just thought you might like to know why I thought this one was appropriate for this episode.