El Chapo Nabbed By Cell Phone Traffic, Creates Journalistic Questions

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Mark Melin
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With all the electronic evasive tactics in the world – encryption, mirroring through Blackphones, anonymous email addresses and unsent messages accessed through the drafts folder in an email and much more – U.S. authorities were able to track down escaped Mexican drug lord Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera, better known as El Chapo. In the end, what did the two-time prison escapee in was his vanity and an interview with the “journalist” Sean Penn. But it is the practice of providing El Chappo final article approval that is raising the ire of some journalistic institutions. El Chapo interview and hopes of…

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.