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Former WSJ reporter says law firm used Indian hackers to sabotage his career

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Re: Former WSJ reporter says law firm used Indian hackers to sabotage his career

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Post by [deleted] »

edge17 wrote: post #5
pempem wrote: post #3

I'm not sure I understand the importance of these hackers being Indian as opposed as from any other region?

My guess is it has to do with Reuters editorial positioning on what's going on with Ukraine and Russia. I agree though, I don't see the relevance.

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Post by greggsy »

pempem wrote: post #3

I'm not sure I understand the importance of these hackers being Indian as opposed as from any other region?

Incidents and stories related to Indian hackers-for-hire have been rising in the past couple of years. A few companies have built a workable model out of it. It’s relevant context from the cyber security industry perspective, tangentially related in this case.

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Post by greggsy »

WFHRenaissance wrote: post #7
pempem wrote: post #3

I'm not sure I understand the importance of these hackers being Indian as opposed as from any other region?

1. Foreign hacking groups are often beyond the reach of Western law enforcement. If a domestic threat had been to blame here, there would be legal/financial recourse for damage done. That's not the case here. Implicit in this article is the report of a new kind of warfare for which many Americans have no good defense against. 2. Standard editorial racism a la "The Oriental Threat".

I don’t think number 2 is at play here - the use of Indian hackers-for-hire has been topical in the cyber security industry recently.

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Post by puchatek »

pempem wrote: post #3

I'm not sure I understand the importance of these hackers being Indian as opposed as from any other region?

Maybe you missed this sentence while reading the article?

"Solomon’s suit is the latest in a series of legal actions that follows Reuters’ reporting about hired hackers operating out of India."

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Post by rosnd »

pempem wrote: post #3

I'm not sure I understand the importance of these hackers being Indian as opposed as from any other region?

It's mostly India where these hackers operate like real companies with websites, offices, bank accounts, etc...

BellTroX is well known and the Indian government seems to approve of their activities.

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Post by bredren »

nier wrote: post #16

It surprised me to read that reporters for the Wall Street Journal communicate with their sources via email. That’s careless.

Reporters don’t always get to pick and enforce the medium of communication with sources.

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Post by 4oo4 »

WFHRenaissance wrote: post #7
pempem wrote: post #3

I'm not sure I understand the importance of these hackers being Indian as opposed as from any other region?

1. Foreign hacking groups are often beyond the reach of Western law enforcement. If a domestic threat had been to blame here, there would be legal/financial recourse for damage done. That's not the case here. Implicit in this article is the report of a new kind of warfare for which many Americans have no good defense against. 2. Standard editorial racism a la "The Oriental Threat".

Is that also why this is a civil suit and not criminal charges under the CFAA?

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Post by swayvil »

This is an angle of the uneven distribution of wealth that you seldom hear about. As long as there are rich and poor people, a rich person can hire a poor person to do basically anything.

Overriding legality, decency, safety. Because the poor person just needs the money that bad.

So you get people renting out their backyard as a toxic waste dump. Or murdering people. Or breathing smog. Or selling children. Crazy horrible stuff that no sane person would do. Because they need the money.

And the rich guy is untouched.

So, to a significant degree, as long as there is rich and poor, there is no law or morality. It reduces society to a dog-pit.

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