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The Asymmetry of Fraud
André's core mental model for why defenders are structurally disadvantaged.
How it works
- 1Criminals break rules freely while banks must follow heavy financial and privacy regulation.
- 2Fraudsters collaborate and share open-source tools while competing banks stay siloed.
- 3Deepfake generation attracts vastly more capital than deepfake detection ever will.
- 4The takeaway: never fight on the attacker's terms — find a different angle entirely.
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