On: Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince'

[Mountain_Skies → saberience]

Doubt he or any other president would do anything about it. When was the last time any administration gave the Saudi government more than a weak reprimand for their antics? Some of our "allies" can do no wrong.

[zelly → saberience]

Because the USA is doing the same to them and their political/military/business leaders. This is par for the course. Everyone is hacking everyone. I'm surprised that they (the NSA) didn't give Bezos a hardened phone and full security audit. Maybe he didn't let them.

[freedomben → saberience]

What do you want Trump to do?

[jessaustin → saberience]

Is this something a President or anyone in government employ should care about? A private citizen using a commercial app on a private phone granted that app some permissions he later regretted. Why should USA taxpayers care about that?

[powowow → jessaustin]

It is reasonable and normal for governments to care when other governments attack their citizens.

[jessaustin → powowow]

If I got hacked, no one in government would care. Why should Bezos be different?

[commoner → jessaustin]

Bezos is the CEO/president of a company that employs 750,000 people in the United States. You are presumably not.

[victords → jessaustin]

By that logic, nobody should care about the Khashoggi killing as well.

[jessaustin → victords]

I don't agree that hacking an app and murder are the same. The state obviously has an interest in preventing murder.

[onlyrealcuzzo → jessaustin]

But it doesn't have an interest in protecting your other rights? Interesting.

[jessaustin → onlyrealcuzzo]

I don't have a right to be stopped from installing insecure software. Any rights in this area go in pretty much the opposite direction.

[Apocryphon → jessaustin]

Will Bezos's divorce affect the Amazon empire in any way? Wondering if that personal move will somehow have corporate, technological infrastructural, and thus national security repercussions.