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Jeff Bezos hack

Thursday, 06 February 2020 12:19 AM [ Last Update: Thursday, 06 February 2020 3:32 AM ]

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In this file photo taken on June 18, 2014 Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos demonstrates the company's first smartphone, the Fire Phone, in Seattle, Washington. (Photo by AFP)

Jeff Bezos's hack news was as incredible as it was consequential. The revelation that Saudi Arabias all powerful Crown Prince, Mohammad Bin Salman had personally hacked the phone of the founder and president of Amazon and owner of the Washington Post, Jeff Bezos, was a first in the sordid history of hacking.

Never before had the ruler or in the case of Bin Salman the acting ruler of a country attempted a personal hack. Saudi Arabia, it seems, is intent on breaking world records when it comes to the gruesome and the downright strange. Take for example the butchering of the dissident journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul in October 2018. That was also a first as never before had a sovereign state used one of its diplomatic facilities to murder a dissident. The implications of the hacking story are so huge and so far-reaching that it is difficult to know where to start. The New York Times is right on the money when it writes that the Bezos hacking scandal should terrify everyone.

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