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SweetCitrusBuzz ,
@SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org avatar

[sarcasm] Wow, Whatsapp owned by Facebook (the privacy violators) isn’t secure? Colour me surprised [/sarcasm]

Shame she didn’t get away with it. Another case for abolishing borders and letting people work and stay places if they want/need to. Also for the US to stop having such an effect on other countries, directly or indirectly.

explore_broaden ,

I don’t think there was anything in the article indicating the privacy of WhatsApp was actually breached, they got info by reading WhatsApp messages from other people in the chat who had already been arrested and from Apple.

SweetCitrusBuzz ,
@SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org avatar

Oh, okay. Thanks for explaining!

Either I missed that or didn’t pick up on it.

ynazuma ,

Failry old news. The Wired article is long and offers nothing but verbiose language and opinion.

The Skinny:

Barbossa is a Brazilian immigrant who along with another Brazilian and a group of 17 other people, used stolen identity data to create fake Uber and Door Dash driver accounts to defraud these companies. They would sell or rent these accounts to unqualified drivers. The scheme netted them about 791,000USD. Barbossa got 3 years in prison, three years probation, and a 20,000 dollar fine.

bamboo ,

20k for 791k, about a 2.5% fee

deranger ,

Probably have to forfeit the money on top of the fine.

explore_broaden ,

According to the article they did seize whatever they could.

asap ,
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Thanks for the paywall OP 🙄

12ft.io/proxy?q=https://www.wired.com/story/prisc…

bamboo ,

Wayback Machine link too: web.archive.org/…/priscila-queen-of-the-rideshare…

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