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WTF? Wasn’t it the NSO that hacked Bezos’s and Khashoggi’s phone? I guess the customer is always right up until the point the widow of your murdered employee g
by CTDOCodebases 5y ago
WTF? Wasn’t it the NSO that hacked Bezos’s and Khashoggi’s phone?
I guess the customer is always right up until the point the widow of your murdered employee goes to the press.
- polar 5y ago> Bezos Bezos' phone probably wasn't hacked. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-05-05/how-jeff-bezos-beat-the-tabloids-the-untold-story-of-money-sex-and-power https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-05-05/how-jeff-...
- s_dev 5y agohttps://www.wired.com/story/bezos-phone-hack-mbs-saudi-arabia/ https://www.wired.com/story/bezos-phone-hack-mbs-saudi-arabi...
- tedunangst 5y agoWhy would you post an article from Jan 2020 as a rebuttal to an article from May 2021?
- s_dev 5y agoCan anyone read your URL since it's behind a paywall?
- ehsankia 5y agoWhat concrete proof does your article have? Bezos literally has access to his phone and the text that MBS sent him, containing the exploit. You're going to take some conspiracy theory based on rumors over the analysis of the actual phone that was hacked? The affair and all those things are probably true, but that doesn't really negate the fact that he was most likely also hacked by MBS.
- sofixa 5y agoDidn't Bloomberg ruin their tech reputation with the still-unproven (years later) and probably baseless claims of nano chips planted in the supply chain of Supermicro ?
- perl4ever 5y agoPeople keep asking that. Seems like every few weeks for however long it's been, I see a comment like yours. I haven't seen anyone mention what news source meets the standard of never having published an article with insufficient evidence according to one or more people on the internet. I mean, obviously not the NY Times, for instance, right?
- sofixa 5y agoA good news source would retract their initial article(s) when experts debunked them and nobody could corroborate, not double down with even less evidence.
- perl4ever 5y agoIt's notoriously hard to prove a negative. But what I'd really like to know is who is a "good news source" in contrast to Bloomberg. If one doubtful article discredits an entire organization, it's pretty astounding to me anyone worth trusting can exist. The Daily Mail?
- 9935c101ab17a66 5y agoThe combination of: the absolutely terrible article being an obvious hit piece, the potential damage of the claims with almost no real evidence to back them up, and the complete lack of contrition or accountability. I don’t think it ruined Bloomberg’s reputation entirely (I still love and frequently read Money Stuff), but it did eviscerate any credibility they had in highly technical, investigative technology reporting. And the refusal to admit the failures publicly definitely calls into question their editorial process and organizational culture. Also, the idea that ‘thing x’ shouldn’t be criticized because ‘thing y’ is also bad is pretty clear “whataboutism” and an unhelpful way to address valid criticism.
- jazzyjackson 5y agoBloomberg don’t want me to know (paywalled)