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Re: No Thank You, Mr. Pecker

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Post by bryanrasmussen »

paxys wrote: post #340
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).

I don't understand, isn't a government entity someone who can get the texts off his mistress' phone?

Re: No Thank You, Mr. Pecker

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Post by 420codebro »

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #461
paxys wrote: post #340

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

I don't understand, isn't a government entity someone who can get the texts off his mistress' phone?

The more likely case is said mistress is a loud-mouth bimbo.

Re: No Thank You, Mr. Pecker

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Post by piker »

a13n wrote: post #408
1nvalid wrote: post #330

Guess where Mr. Pecker is hosting! https://twitter.com/ryanhuber/status/1093665718464327680

https://www.nationalenquirer.com is now down

Interestingly up, but responding with 403. Being unfamiliar with AWS' web hosting platform, is there a service that would fall back to denying access if certain sub-modules or instances were pulled?

Re: No Thank You, Mr. Pecker

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Post by buboard »

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…

indeed, however the evidence looks too amateurish for a state-sponsored attack.

Re: No Thank You, Mr. Pecker

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Post by michaelt »

markonen wrote: post #425
opportune wrote: post #419

Earlier quoted context omitted.

well it's a lot easier to "hack" one person's iCloud account (in reality you just need a well placed personal assistant or employee at apple) than an entire cloud infrastructure without being noticed

Okay, I'll bite: how would a single employee at Apple do this?

1. Receive anti-social-engineering training saying they absolutely shouldn't do X.

2. Do X.

Re: No Thank You, Mr. Pecker

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Post by grumdan »

laurentl wrote: post #454
greendesk wrote: post #442

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Replied to a different comment - but the same question applies here. Are you sure that they are a single entity, where people are of uniform opinion? And every single person follows law to the letter of it? Trump could request this task unofficially from someone as a 'favour' - the agency as a whole might not have access to the request.

In the second case, one might hope that those entities will check their audit logs and make sure no-one used the tools of the state for their own end.

Well, there were documents part of the Snowden leaks that showed how some NSA agents used the agency's tools to spy on (former) romantic partners and such, and I think he said something along the lines of this kind of thing not being prosecuted much. Sure, it's still a different level than a political case like this one, but it does call the internal oversight at the NSA into question.

Re: No Thank You, Mr. Pecker

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Post by 420codebro »

willvarfar wrote: post #402
jjeaff wrote: post #346

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They won't publish them. But I'll guarantee you they will anonymously leak out on the internet. There is no way to prove they are the only people with these photos. (and they of course aren't the only ones)

Can Bezos get a US court to impound the photos? Something akin to the UK 'super injunction'? That would make being caught leaking the photos perjury. The stakes are so high that AMI might well not dare to do that. Its easy to imagine that Bezos, whatever he is saying publicly, is also getting excellent legal consul privately and that two can play at the games that AMI is so infamous for.

Nope. We have no prior restraint here.

Re: No Thank You, Mr. Pecker

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Post by rsynnott »

cm2187 wrote: post #409
jorblumesea wrote: post #299

Earlier quoted context omitted.

House of Saud, maybe, they are dumb enough to think this would work. Given their inept handling of the Khashoggi I wouldn't be surprised. I doubt anyone in the US intelligence profession would think Bezos would call off the WaPo because of some scandalous photos. "Just blackmail the richest man on the planet, that will totally work!"

> "Just blackmail the richest man on the planet, that will totally work!" Given the number of people and media who seem to be convinced without a doubt that Trump is being blackmailed by Russia...

Generally people who think that think that Trump is being blackmailed with something _criminal_ (while the pee tape got a lot of attention, it's actually one of the less dangerous parts of that dossier from Trump's point of view). There's nothing criminal about taking a photo of your genitals.

Re: No Thank You, Mr. Pecker

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Post by buboard »

Whatever people say about the social media, their evilness is at least transparent. This kind of "journalism" is another level of evil and reminds me why all traditional media should be distrusted.

Re: No Thank You, Mr. Pecker

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Post by rsynnott »

samstave wrote: post #413
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…

If the CEO and Founder of AWS can be easily hacked by Saudis then what does that mean for the rest of silicon valley in general and 99% of YC funded startups who rely on AWS?

One would hope that (a) Bezos doesn't have unrestricted access to AWS and that (b) whatever access he has uses multiple forms of authentication.
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