Computer system security is not simply a probabilistic exercise since hackers are strategic actors. Game theoretic thought is required.

Timothy Belden, at the center of the Enron scandal, studied game theory at Berkeley.

Auditing tax payers requires mixed strategies but greater enforcement costs require proportionally greater funding.

Payoffs may encourage copy-cats, a moral hazard but may be worth considering if the threat is sufficiently credible

Bayes Rule suggests that it is likely that an eye witness picks the wrong person.

Proper assignment of liability creates the incentives for those best able to manage risk to do so.

Zero-tolerance policing is a game of chicken between cops and sociopaths.