Saudis gained access to Amazon CEO Bezos' phone: Bezos' security chief
The security chief for Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos said on Saturday that the Saudi government had access to Bezos' phone and gained private information from it.
Gavin De Becker, a longtime security consultant, said he had concluded his investigation into the publication in January of leaked text messages between Bezos and Lauren Sanchez, a former television anchor who the National Enquirer tabloid newspaper [had] said Bezos was dating.
Last month, Bezos accused the newspaper's owner of trying to blackmail him with the threat of publishing "intimate photos" he allegedly sent to Sanchez unless he said in public that the tabloid's reporting on him was not politically motivated.
Also at The Daily Beast.
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(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Monday April 01 2019, @09:33AM (3 children)
Khashoggi, IMO, is a poster child for the Darwin Awards. Sorry if you don't like that attitude, but that's how I see it.
The man KNEW that his government and the despotic assholes that run it have no respect for "freedom of the press". If Khashoggi were a competent journalist, then at some time he had to opportunity to attend the University of Hard Knocks. There he should have taken International Intrigue 101, 102, 103, 201 thru 210, and 301. Before he finished II 102, he should have known "Always Cover Your Ass". Before he completed 103, he should have known "Everyone is an enemy, and potential murderer."
Khashoggi did enter into enemy territory, alone, without backup, and without an escape plan. What - he thought that leaving some chick outside the embassy, without weapons, and without clear instructions on any rescue attempt was sufficient to "Always Cover Your ASS"??
Unless he intended to become a martyr, then he was just another dumbass who thought that he could play with the big boys. The big boys would have handed him his ass, if there were any ass left to hand to him.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 01 2019, @01:09PM
So now you blame the victim for the crime? Classy.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday April 01 2019, @01:42PM (1 child)
People aren't supposed to just get murdered in embassies. And indeed, he probably would have been fine if his phone hadn't been hacked and his planned movements were not known. The killers were flown in after all.
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday April 01 2019, @01:50PM
When you have powerful enemies, you don't blithely answer the beck and call of a representative of those enemies. He most probably didn't need any paperwork, it was some bogus, made-up necessity.