Keeping in mind that we have seen exactly zero evidence that Bezos's texts were ever intercepted at all. Hopefully at this point we're long past taking claims in an op-ed at face value?
No, sorry, I don’t agree at all. I consider Gavin de Becker to be exceptionally credible, and think any idea that “all op-eds are the same” is beyond disingenuous.
I don’t know anything about Gavin. Not that I particularly trust journalists but they are supposed to be neutral third parties reporting facts.
I agree that something that I didn’t say would have been disingenuous, but I’m not sure why you would bring it up.
I’m sure you would agree that it being an op-ed tells us primarily that this article was not written by a neutral third party. We would not be surprised if it makes little to no effort to present opposing views. As an op-ed it is free to make unsupported conjectures and should probably be approached with a higher bar of skepticism and should be expected to provide facts or evidence to back up any of its novel claims.
In short, op-eds are not news, and should not be treated as such. Not that “news” is particularly deserving of the distinction these days.
I said simply that we should not take op-ed claims at face value. You said you don’t agree at all. I mean, you are perfectly free to take the claims at face value if you like, but appeal to authority is hardly compelling and perhaps even a bit disingenuous itself.
Yes, this entire article is bullshit. I'd bet 99% her phone/email/whatever were hacked from password reuse in a prior leak. Convenient this all happened when he divorced his wife (aka someone knew who she was to target her specifically) and figured they'd extort Amazon and likely short the stock. I've read the article, it really doesn't say anything.
I'm so tired with these pseuso-SOC style reports detailing <some group> from the US, north Korea (lol?), Saudis, <whatever> just because someone changed a path of a binary to /home/valdimir and made a post on a Russian underground forum.
Ockham's razor here, she reused passwords, got pwned, he sent her dick pics, as 80% of the people of this world do these days, and they got recovered.
