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So, anyone want to hazard a guess on why the prince would want the optics of being seen to have been responsible for the hack (as opposed to trying to cover that up by, say, not using his very own account)?
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The Saudi Royal Family simply do not care and walk around with impunity. They thumb their nose at the law and the world order and think they deserve to do whatever they want. This is exactly the same as the Khagoshi execution where overwhelming evidence and implication, but, play naive and put on a big sham investigation. Just how when Russian agents poisoned the Skripals and said they were their to view a church ste…
This does seem the most likely, as hard as it is to believe. I guess when you have hierarchies based on blood rather than competency, this is what you end up with.
This sounded plausible until I read the first sentence. Why would MBS be the one executing the attack, and using his personal account to do it?
The Saudi Royal Family simply do not care and walk around with impunity. They thumb their nose at the law and the world order and think they deserve to do whatever they want. This is exactly the same as the Khagoshi execution where overwhelming evidence and implication, but, play naive and put on a big sham investigation. Just how when Russian agents poisoned the Skripals and said they were their to view a church ste…
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Can you elaborate on the google data center breach? Are you saying it was orchestrated by google?
Not orchestrated, but happily tolerated. All Google needs is to be able to plausibly deny complicity, but the other practices of Google (such as not offering warrant canaries on all Google accounts) indicate that Google is eager to cooperate and please governments, so it would have been easy to leave a few doors unlocked, hire a plant (with solid itsec skills), etc.
Pavel Durov argued that WhatsApp's vulnerabilities are intentionally created as part of surveillance programs with government agencies. [1] If that were true, Bezos's case would be an example of how that approach to security is double-edged. Backdoors can be just as useful to foreign intelligence as they are to whoever pushed for their implementation. [1] https://t.me/s/durov/109
That's one hell of a tinfoil-hat theory. How would you even orchestrate that from within a public company with so many developers involved?
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I don't think Google has given us any reason to believe that it was not complicit. For instance, why not include warrant canaries on gmail accounts? There is not really any fundamental difference between abetting the data center breach and opting not to offer warrant canaries. Likely tens of thousands of Google users are searched every day due to easy FISC warrants and wide investigative nets. The state sponsored att…
Warrant cannaries are of dubious legality and have yet to be seriously tested in court. It makes total sense that a large company would not adopt something potentially illegal. A person on StackExchange put it well > The distinction between revealing the existence of the subpoena by action, rather than by inaction, is a false one. It's exactly the kind of cutesy legal formality that non-lawyers love to rely on, but r…
Pavel Durov argued that WhatsApp's vulnerabilities are intentionally created as part of surveillance programs with government agencies. [1] If that were true, Bezos's case would be an example of how that approach to security is double-edged. Backdoors can be just as useful to foreign intelligence as they are to whoever pushed for their implementation. [1] https://t.me/s/durov/109
That's one hell of a tinfoil-hat theory. How would you even orchestrate that from within a public company with so many developers involved?
Vulnerabilities will appear and be discovered by the security analysts in your government.
Whey they suspect other countries have the same 0days they'll notify you of it and you fix it.
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It doesn't matter. The Whatsapp exploit affected both IOS and Android: https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/05/13/whatsapp-vulnerab...
That's interesting. How would that work? Under Android, all apps effectively run inside a Java sandbox, right? So how would the attackers be able to install spyware through Whatsapp?