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Re: No Thank You, Mr. Pecker

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Post by Rapzid »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #252
busterarm wrote: post #250

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Jeff's parents supported him when he left his hedge fund job at D.E. Shaw. He was a quant and he had been there 4 years. He left his bonus on the table when he left but he was extremely well paid. He wasn't exactly hurting for cash. It's already well established fact that Jeff's/Amazon's costs in the early days were paid for with his parents' life savings.

You interpreted "support" differently than I: "The couple was leaving behind a wealthy existence on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, according to Brad Stone, the author of the 2013 book The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon. “They gave up a really comfortable lifestyle and successful careers to move across the country and start something on the internet,” says Stone. “The only reason [Jeff] was able to d…

Says Stone.

Honestly, I find that this stuff is as romanticized as the Old South.

Re: No Thank You, Mr. Pecker

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Post by bArray »

This is literally the best thing he could have done. Would love to hear more about other people who have been black-mailed too - perhaps there is something much larger afoot. Hell, if they are this bold about taking on Bezos, potentially the other black-mail-ees are some very influential big hitters (billionaires, politicians, etc).

As others have pointed out, the big story is that he's directly accusing them of political motivation (US and/or Saudi), with them threatening him almost confirming that this is correct. For them to show their hand so badly hints strongly towards some guilt. Digging further seems like the last thing they want, so I think it's what should be done.

Would just like to add - regardless of how embarrassing the photos may or may not be, any "news" agency that publishes them goes straight to the top of my shit list and hopefully everybody elses too. Would be good if there was some organized way to show solidarity against black mail of this kind.

Re: No Thank You, Mr. Pecker

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Post by toephu2 »

slg wrote: post #285

It seems like a lot of people are not reading between the lines of this post. Bezos apparently believes that he was hacked by either the US or Saudi government and that now one or both of those governments are using the National Enquirer as an attack dog against him. That accusation is much bigger than any other piece of this story. EDIT: Here [1] is a reporter from the Washington Post backing that up. The Bezos' cam…

>"hacked" by either the US or Saudi government

You think the U.S./Saudi government can remotely grab pics from an iPhone?

Apple has disclosed lots of security info saying even they cannot do this. The iPhone/iOS wasn't built in that way.

I think the leak likely comes from someone close to Ms. Sanchez, or she fell victim to a phishing attack (or account recovery hack).

Re: No Thank You, Mr. Pecker

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Post by jonny_eh »

toephu2 wrote: post #335
slg wrote: post #285

It seems like a lot of people are not reading between the lines of this post. Bezos apparently believes that he was hacked by either the US or Saudi government and that now one or both of those governments are using the National Enquirer as an attack dog against him. That accusation is much bigger than any other piece of this story. EDIT: Here [1] is a reporter from the Washington Post backing that up. The Bezos' cam…

>"hacked" by either the US or Saudi government You think the U.S./Saudi government can remotely grab pics from an iPhone? Apple has disclosed lots of security info saying even they cannot do this. The iPhone/iOS wasn't built in that way. I think the leak likely comes from someone close to Ms. Sanchez, or she fell victim to a phishing attack (or account recovery hack).

A hack is a hack

Re: No Thank You, Mr. Pecker

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Post by postscapes1 »

theNJR wrote: post #29
minimaxir wrote: post #2

Important note: This is written by Jeff Bezos himself . Normally, the Bezos affair story would be gossipy, but this alleges extortion , extraordinarily. (Also, why is Jeff Bezos using Medium? He owns a newspaper.)

Also interesting that the writing is a bit clunky. Doesn't seem to have gone through 100 coms people.

This was my first thoughts as well.

Very strange writing style "complexifier", "back to the story" multiple times.

Re: No Thank You, Mr. Pecker

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Post by adrianmonk »

rdiddly wrote: post #150

Thought experiment: Try taking them at their word for a sec. "...an exploration of Mr. Bezos’ judgment... is indeed newsworthy and in the public interest." Wonderful! Looking out for my interests! My heroes, fightin' for me against all the bad judgment! So grateful! But then, if he'll agree to comply with their demands, suddenly it's not newsworthy anymore. "AM agrees not to publish, distribute, share, or describe un…

Yes. When they say it's newsworthy, the only reason they care about that is the legal protection it could offer them if they did publish the photos.

They clearly don't care about using journalism to benefit the public good. They've already admitted to that much when they openly acknowledged they helped bury the Karen McDougal / Trump story. ( https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/12/national-enq... ) If it's important for shareholders to know about a sex scandal involving Bezos, then it's important for voters to know about sex scandal involving Trump.

Re: No Thank You, Mr. Pecker

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Post by omeid2 »

optimiz3 wrote: post #307
techntoke wrote: post #288

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pretty sure that AWS doesn't have permission to conduct criminal investigations. Those would need to be turned over to a criminal prosecutor. It would be a pretty scary world if corporations were able to police consumer and business data whenever they "suspected" something. Talk about political hit jobs.

Why does it need to meet the bar of a criminal investigation? All they need to do is to tick one of the boxes in their ToS and kick them off their property. Heck, there's an entire sub-category of law colloquially known as "Amazon-law", where you hire folks who specialize in navigating the intricacies of Amazon's policies so your business doesn't get crushed: https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/19/18140799/amazon-market…

They don't need to change a thing! It is already there:

> You may not use, or encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to use, the Services or AWS Site for... content that violate the rights of others, or that may be harmful to others, our operations or reputation...

Character assassination of the chief head of AWS is damaging to the reputation of AWS in no uncertain terms.

Re: No Thank You, Mr. Pecker

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Post by paxys »

slg wrote: post #285

It seems like a lot of people are not reading between the lines of this post. Bezos apparently believes that he was hacked by either the US or Saudi government and that now one or both of those governments are using the National Enquirer as an attack dog against him. That accusation is much bigger than any other piece of this story. EDIT: Here [1] is a reporter from the Washington Post backing that up. The Bezos' cam…

Politically motivated - 100%

Government entity accessed them? I'd say it is much more likely that someone got the texts off his mistresses phone (whether willingly or not).

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