The potential for fraud in tech companies is inestimable. In a conventional company, most anyone could tell you from casual observation whether the level of activity was twice what it was a year ago, or half. This is not true for tech firms, particularly software companies.
Richard Grove tipped me to this idea when he was talking about his experiences as a software salesman way back before 911. It's quite a fascinating story to look up and is related to the perpetration of the crime of 911 itself.
He inadvertently came across record of millions in software license sales in his name for which he should have been owed a commission but was never paid. They didn't want to pay him because the users did not exist and the sales were just part of a larger fraud.
So such fraud could easily go on right under the nose of a salesman a quarter century ago. How much more fraud is going on now? It's incalculable. If Google reports sales for ad impressions for a client, is there anyone auditing that eyeballs actually saw those ads? Of course not.
Frankly, Alphabet (and the alphabet agencies) could not only create the ad revenue, it could create thousands of strawmen clients and launder unlimited amounts of money right into SkyNet. Who would be in a position to casually detect such activity? No one at all.
The mind boggles trying to imagine what's going on in that little corner of the world.
The potential for fraud in tech companies is inestimable. In a conventional company, most anyone could tell you from casual observation whether the level of activity was twice what it was a year ago, or half. This is not true for tech firms, particularly software companies.
Richard Grove tipped me to this idea when he was talking about his experiences as a software salesman way back before 911. It's quite a fascinating story to look up and is related to the perpetration of the crime of 911 itself.
He inadvertently came across record of millions in software license sales in his name for which he should have been owed a commission but was never paid. They didn't want to pay him because the users did not exist and the sales were just part of a larger fraud.
So such fraud could easily go on right under the nose of a salesman a quarter century ago. How much more fraud is going on now? It's incalculable. If Google reports sales for ad impressions for a client, is there anyone auditing that eyeballs actually saw those ads? Of course not.
Frankly, Alphabet (and the alphabet agencies) could not only create the ad revenue, it could create thousands of strawmen clients and launder unlimited amounts of money right into SkyNet. Who would be in a position to casually detect such activity? No one at all.
The mind boggles trying to imagine what's going on in that little corner of the world.