Desktop Forgery

*I can remember computer-security maven Donn Parker publicly predicting

this behavior seventeen years ago. I was all impressed at the time, too.

"Gosh, desktop forgery, gee, why not, why wouldn't they? How darkly plausible!"

*I wonder if this hapless small-scale malefactor ever heard of "desktop forgery."
Very likely not. He probably scanned a train ticket on a lark, saw it pass through
the system, thought cheerily, "blimey, that's not hard at all," and became
another drop in the bucket of a 4...