The headline might be vague (though I'd personally love to see drone strikes on the scumbags that scam elderly people to of their meager savings) but the article itself talks in terms of priority and effort for investigations into malware attacks. E.g., they won't just shrug and do nothing because they care about other crimes more, like with my stolen GPS case.

I'm astonished you would support drone strikes on civilians. Scammers are working a bad job out of necessity. They are not villains who deserve to be extrajudicially murdered.

The professional nature these scams are now (call from 'Microsoft', steal a little and then send properly dressed and documented people to the house to 'investigate the fraud' and steal more) is not desperate people scamming. Sure they do not have to be murdered, but removed from society is not a bad plan. These are pro organizations, not a handful of poor people anymore.

I doubt it. The war on drugs is not very effective either.

It's a bad comparison, becauSe organized "War on Terror" terrorism is extremely rare, because it's not very profitable.

The news is PR fluff.

Giving it similar priority does not mean using similar methods. Hopefully..