2023-04-18
Since the mid-2010s, criminals have communicated on specially-modified encrypted phones as if nobody could read their texts. Big mistake. I wrote about the dazzling revelations of the biggest police breakthrough in a generation for @newyorker: https://www.newyorker.com/...
New Yorker
How European police agencies infiltrated encrypted phone networks, like EncroChat and Sky ECC, that were popular with drug syndicates and other criminal groups
Ed Caesar / New Yorker : Tweets: @rupertmyers , @clairegeorgeseu , @kitchellel , @dduane , @newyorker , and @edcaesar Tweets: Rupert Myers / @rupertmyers : Crooks' Mistaken Bet on...
2022-11-30
Many things the world can learn from the downfall of FTX, and SBF. One takeaway is that their expenses system was undeniably awesome, and should be implemented everywhere. (This whole piece is wild. Alameda owes 55 grand to Margaritaville, Nassau.) https://www.ft.com/...) https://twitter.com/...
Financial Times
Interviews detail FTX and SBF's lavish spending, aided by minimal internal controls, including $300M+ on Bahamas real estate and chartering Amazon deliveries
When crypto exchange FTX moved its headquarters to the Bahamas from Hong Kong last year, employees discovered that Amazon did not deliver to the island.
Many things the world can learn from the downfall of FTX, and SBF. One takeaway is that their expenses system was undeniably awesome, and should be implemented everywhere. (This whole piece is wild. Alameda owes 55 grand to Margaritaville, Nassau.) https://www.ft.com/...) https://twitter.com/...
Fortune
In an interview, SBF claims he donated about the same amount to both parties in 2022 but the GOP donations were “dark” money, discusses Alameda, FTT, and more
Sam Bankman-Fried's donations to Democrats are well documented. In an interview released Tuesday …
2019-10-12
Dark, fascinating piece about the winners and losers of Amazon's flywheel culture, by @cduhigg, who has worn out some shoe leather reporting this one. https://www.newyorker.com/...
New Yorker
A deep dive into Amazon's enormous growth over the past decade as it tries to maintain its lean management culture and prepares to fend off regulators
We created this page to provide customers … Catherine Thorbecke / ABC News : Amazon takes public stand on minimum wage, climate change Eugene Kim / CNBC : Amazon says punishing cou...
2019-10-11
Dark, fascinating piece about the winners and losers of Amazon's flywheel culture, by @cduhigg, who has worn out some shoe leather reporting this one. https://www.newyorker.com/...
New Yorker
A deep dive into Amazon's enormous growth over the past decade as it tries to maintain its lean management culture and prepares to fend off regulators
Politicians want to rein in the retail giant. But Jeff Bezos, the master of cutthroat capitalism, is ready to fight back.