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Russian-spy hookers targeting tech leaders in Silicon Valley? (mercurynews.com)
19 points by parvenu74 on July 27, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 7 comments


Suspected Russian “honeypot” prostitutes targeting tech execs and VCs in an infamous Silicon Valley lounge provide a salacious illustration of the region’s spy problem

Not just SV. Russian (and Azerbaijani, Lithianian, Latvian, etc...) hookers are abundant in Seattle, Redmond, and especially Bellevue. Oh, God, Bellevue.

Exactly how many are spies is obviously unknown; otherwise they wouldn't be very good spies.

To me, the ones that charge significantly higher prices than the others are probably a good signal that they're trying to attract specific highly-placed tech folk who like to show off their money. The rest are just trying to earn a living, and working the Eastern Europe -> Pacific Northwest prostitution pipeline.


As usual, this contains comments negative to Huawei.

I wonder how a negative sentiment can be created by multiple small cuts like this


Would you please stop taking HN threads in the direction of ideological and national battle? This is off topic here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


This threads title is literally targeting another nation......


Half the article literally talks about Huawei though.


Two wrongs don't make a right.


It is hard to not notice the ideological spin on every news piece, so I will just not talk about Chinese companies.




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