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this reads like he got out-lawyered here. context for the unaware: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/03/ubiquiti-sues-journalist-alleging-defamation-in

• kspacewalk2 4y ago
  Out-lawyered by life and facts.
• duxup 4y ago
  Out lawyered, because he was wrong?
  • bombcar 4y ago
    A good journalist knows how to verify sources and check before writing. A great journalist finds great sources that are unimpeachable. But a wealthy journalist knows how to write articles from horrible or no sources at all that are not technical defamation.
• mewse-hn 4y ago
  Next story will probably be that the suit was settled out-of-court :P
• nerdponx 4y ago
  Do I understand this correctly? There was a minor data breach at Ubiquiti. An employee named Sharp was using this as an opportunity to extort his employer and exfiltrate data. Sharp was telling Krebs some yarn about the data breach being bigger than reported, which Krebs then repeated on his blog, accusing Ubiquiti of covering up a more significant breach. And Ubiquiti is claiming that Krebs knew the truth all along. This sounds like a weird and complicated story, so I feel like I'm probably misunderstanding.
  • InTheArena 4y ago
    Sharp did the breach and then extorted Ubiquiti. Ubiquiti got the FBI involved and declined to pay off Sharp. Sharp followed through on his threat and disclosed everything to Kerbs, who wrote an article about it. The FBI and Ubiquiti were on to Sharp, but since Sharp was Kreb's only source, Krebs doubled down on the allegation with a series of articles, and then never retracted it (until now)
  • mzs 4y ago
    That's pretty much it, yes: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/former-employee-technology-company-charged-stealing-confidential-data-and-extorting https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/former-employee-technol... https://www.cyber.nj.gov/public-data-breaches/ubiquiti https://www.cyber.nj.gov/public-data-breaches/ubiquiti
• mardifoufs 4y ago
  I wonder what has changed? The original thread discussing the lawsuit was filled with super dismissive comments, arguing that ubiquity lawyers were incompetent and had no actual way to win the case. Some of the commenters were supposedly actual lawyers too, so it's not even just the normal "terrible armchair law advice" we are used to from HN.
  • encryptluks2 4y ago
    Everyone loves to play the armchair lawyer. Bias quickly fuels whatever side of a case you're on. However discovery and a few court conferences can quickly put things into perspective. Almost everyone's lawyers start off with some encouraging words but eventually they are telling you to settle for X and it is clear that they wouldn't have got paid if they told you that you had a losing case from the get go.
  • james_in_the_uk 4y ago
    Perhaps Krebs has chosen to move on with his life. Defending litigation is often expensive, distracting and stressful, even if you think you have a strong case. The law isn't necessarily always as pugilistic as Hollywood might lead you to believe. Perfectly fine to think you are right, say you were wrong, settle the case and move on. Of course, we have no way to know what Krebs really thinks or what actually went on behind closed doors here. We should take the written statement at face value, exactly as written. No more no less.