In reply to Peter.

The problem between physical theft and information theft is that when your car is stolen you are missing the car; in information space, information is stolen but you still have that information.

All i was trying to get to in this post was the fact that two place play at this game in terms of a targeted focus. What ML allows us to do is drastically lower the operational costs of this observation and orientation at a scale no amount of humans could have attained.