Have you noticed the increasing flood of technical articles with a she where you expect a he?
If your laptop automatically connects to a Wi-Fi network run by a hacker, she might be able to search your computer for sensitive data, even information that would allow access to your company's network.
Consider the number of women arrested and found guilty (sentenced or not) of embezzlement, shoplifting, and credit card theft/fraud. Not to mention the amount of
extortion and "third party" crime.
It only makes sense.
Now that the heavy lifting of establishing criminal
operandi,
inevitably rising to meet the challenges of new technology, women of less than honorable
intent will be attracted to the easier "crimes of opportunity". It's easier to rip folks off
while sitting at a keyboard while sipping a latte double shot at Btarsucks than getting up and going to a job every morning, risking discovery of double billing company clients and/or redirecting payments to personal accounts while entering false data into the ledgers.
Oh sure, the booty is less attractive, and there's no
regular paycheck to augment and hide their assets, so how do they do it?
Volume! volume! volume!
Yep, women have come a long way from laundering and cooking.
