arrested Navinder Singh Sarao, age thirty-six, on the request of U.S. prosecutors, who alleged that he’d helped cause the crash and profited from it to the tune of $875,000. What’s amazing is that Sarao operated with a computer and network connection out of his parents’ home in Hounslow, West London. But in a hyperconnected world, he managed to use computer algorithms to manipulate the market by creating fictitious orders that “spoofed” the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and, authorities maintain, set off a chain reaction.
