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The World's Greatest Detective Was Also the World's Greatest Con Artist

A cybersecurity professor dressed as Sherlock Holmes walked a DEF CON audience through why the tricks criminals use to manipulate people today are identical to what a Victorian fictional detective pulled off in the 1890s.

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