American spy hacked Booking.com, company stayed silent

Post by dhosek » Thu, Nov 11, 2021, 4:04 PM UTC

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There's a lot of potential here. I'm thinking a slow burning Breaking Bad set up that sells itself as a light hearted Fawlty Towers-type show about a wide eyed Monopoly enthusiast fulfilling his dream, but with every season it gets darker and grittier and ends as a tangled web of international crime and corruption. Everything spirals out of control. The hotel is hosting a big conference and the minister of whatever i…

This is almost exactly Ozark, if anyone likes the idea and wants to watch now.

Post by Ichthypresbyter » Thu, Nov 11, 2021, 4:17 PM UTC

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>> black hat hackers How are foreign intelligence services not black hats? They are stealing data in order to use it for any number of non-nice things. Not selling the data on the dark web doesn't bleach their hats.

They are definitely black hats. Intelligence services operating in foreign countries (physically or digitally) are by definition criminals, in that they are breaking the local laws where they are operating / accessing. That they are doing it for a 'good cause' (often debatable) is somewhat irrelevant, that is a risk/reward calculation that the country/agency/spy needs to make themselves. If a a friendly country of th…

Post by hugh-avherald » Thu, Nov 11, 2021, 4:28 PM UTC

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They did something; they found someone else to blame: "The management claims it was not legally required to do so at the time, based on advice it received from the law firm Hogan Lovells." Although a company the size of booking.com should have its own qualified legal department, so that may not shield them from being liable...

> Although a company the size of booking.com should have its own qualified legal department, so that may not shield them from being liable... How does retaining outside counsel as opposed to employing internal counsel have any bearing on liability? Asking genuinely. I'm not an attorney.

Post by jaclaz » Thu, Nov 11, 2021, 4:42 PM UTC

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> Who is to say if a room was occupied or not that night, if that foreigner who paid in cash really existed. Here in th EU, they usually have a look at your passport. I think it's enforced by law in some places. Government overreach

I don't understand your point. In "Breaking Bad" if he had a hotel instead of a car wash, he could claim it was 95% occupied every night. Thereby washing large quantities of cash. In the EU do they have to keep IDs for a certain amount of time or something? If so then you just keep a few on file and hand those over when asked.

Post by samhw » Thu, Nov 11, 2021, 5:01 PM UTC

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All that intelligence and they still can't figure out how to stop a bunch of unemployed basementarians from organising on Facebook to storm one of their principal seats of government... (Sorry for the Twitter-grade comment - but I do sometimes wonder what these people really spend their time doing, that they couldn't catch that one.)

Oh they knew it was going to happen, it's just that they don't have the people to actually intervene, and the ones that did were either in on it, indecisive, or ordered to not intervene from higher up.