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Amazon customer gets 7 years... Toyota driver gets 7 years...
by Brian_K_White 3y ago
Amazon customer gets 7 years... Toyota driver gets 7 years...
- tmalsburg2 3y agoFully agree. This stuff doesn’t magically become interesting and relevant to HN just because some connection to a tech company exists.
- behringer 3y agoIt's pretty relavent, because the way he did the crime was incredibly brazen or incredibly stupid. Probably both.
- Brian_K_White 3y agoWhat is the relevance? If "engineer" was actually so high up that they were a public figure that might be something, but Christopher Pence is no such houshold name. His former employer was utterly irrelevant. Here are some examples of relevance: He never wanted to leave MS and victim is who he blames for having to leave. He hates MS now and victim is someone important in MS. He has a fortune in MS stock and victim is about to do something that will tank that stock. He is Steve Ballmer. Reason doesn't matter, Ballmer is notable all by himself. And what about his current employer (or occupation whatever that may be), why a former employer?
- croes 3y agoOne could argue that if a security engineer of Microsoft falls for Dark Web honeypots Micrsofts security may have serious problems. Edit: Not a honeypot but a confidential source. The killer or did they intercept his browsing session?
- Brian_K_White 3y agoTo be clear I'm questioning the titles relevance to to story, not the act of posting on HN.
- burntduck 3y agoHe used bitcoin purchased with his own details. Total incompetence on his part. The confidential source was probably the hitman scammer themselves.