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They Built an 87-Camera Surveillance State to Stop Cheating. It Ruined Them.
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What happens when a criminal conspiracy treats trust as an engineering problem? According to a recently unsealed DOJ indictment, four major shipping container manufacturers allegedly banded together to artificially limit global output. To keep members from cheating, they shared real-time factory camera feeds with each other.
But their biggest legal vulnerability wasn’t the cameras—it was the basic math of expanding their membership. This video explores the fascinating logic of corporate defection.
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