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Maybe he can team up with that professor from cambridge who wrote that letter to the banks and they can be an international crimefighting duo.

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The Cambridge professor was Ross Anderson. He replied to a letter from UK Cards Association requesting the university to take down a research paper by a PhD student. The issue was about the chip-and-pin no-pin vulnerability.

HN Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2039117

Take down request: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/20101221110342233.pdf (pdf)

Professor Anderson's reply: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/ukca.pdf (pdf)

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