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Boeing whistleblower found dead in US

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Re: Boeing whistleblower found dead in US

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Post by esoterica »

rl3 wrote: post #17
torstenvl wrote: post #4

"Self-inflicted wound"? Obviously the story is still developing but I'm immediately skeptical. EDIT: Also weird that BBC is already memory-holing that it was a gunshot wound. archive.is has the original. https://archive.is/wj0LE

> Also weird that BBC is already memory-holing that it was a gunshot wound. Another source backs this up, and seems to have interviewed the man's attorney in the past. [0][1] It's tempting to dismiss foul play on the basis that it's too brazen in the middle of a deposition. However, that's also the height of plausible deniability because cross examinations can get personal and thus emotional. --- I can't help but be…

Movies aren’t real dude.

Re: Boeing whistleblower found dead in US

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Post by zenexer »

esoterica wrote: post #21
rl3 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Also weird that BBC is already memory-holing that it was a gunshot wound. Another source backs this up, and seems to have interviewed the man's attorney in the past. [0][1] It's tempting to dismiss foul play on the basis that it's too brazen in the middle of a deposition. However, that's also the height of plausible deniability because cross examinations can get personal and thus emotional. --- I can't help but be…

Movies aren’t real dude.

In the real world, the security team just handles it directly. https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/six-former-ebay-employees...

Edit: In all seriousness, I don’t think the situation presented in the aforementioned movie quote is implausible, though I’m inclined to doubt foul play here unless there’s specific evidence to that effect. Depositions can be extraordinarily stressful; compound that with the anxiety of being a whistleblower, and I can see how someone could snap. At the same time, I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that there was foul play.

Re: Boeing whistleblower found dead in US

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Post by jj999 »

Qem wrote: post #14

He should have done like Snowden. Got out of the country before exposing material. Shouldn't a witness in a high profile case like him been granted some sort of police escort by the court? Guy paid the ultimate price for freedom of speech and informing the public. Wonder if someone will sustain there is no threat to freedom of speech because the lawsuit involved the company where he was employed, not the government.…

Name a juridiction where he would have been both i)taken in and ii)secure.

Re: Boeing whistleblower found dead in US

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Post by esoterica »

zenexer wrote: post #26
esoterica wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Movies aren’t real dude.

In the real world, the security team just handles it directly. https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/six-former-ebay-employees... Edit: In all seriousness, I don’t think the situation presented in the aforementioned movie quote is implausible, though I’m inclined to doubt foul play here unless there’s specific evidence to that effect. Depositions can be extraordinarily stressful; compound that with the anxiety of being…

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Re: Boeing whistleblower found dead in US

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Post by falsandtru »

mef wrote: post #23

Anyone know why this isn’t on the front page with 96 pts one hour after submission?

Hacker News is extremely strongly manipulated. What users see as popularity order is actually the order manipulated to the moderators' liking.

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#behavi...

I believe this is a good technical article for HN concerning safety culture of engineers, but moderators didn't think so.

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