Whistleblower claims NSO offered 'bags of cash' for access to US phone networks A whistleblower's allegations about spyware maker NSO Group should be investigated by American prosecutors, US House Rep Ted Lieu (D-CA) has said. The informant claimed senior NSO executives offered "bags of cash" to California-based telecoms security and monitoring outfit Mobileum to assist in its surveillance work, according …
many people behave unethically and illegally, in small and large ways, perhaps the reason for donvote. btw, there are so many shades between white and black, from the stories I hear brought home by my better half, it's very easy, not necessarily because you're evil / corrupt / whatever, but because turning a blind eye to minor (at first) 'irregularities' is... easier (and people in a large group display rather peculiar behaviour patterns). And, sooner rather than later, 'minor irregularities' become the norm, and they become somewhat more irregular, etc., slippery slope. Not an excuse but I can imagine it's quite an easy, gentle curve - down. What's the difference between an umbrella company trying to cheat the system and their workforce out of tax and due monies, v. large (aka 'reputable') corp doing exactly that? Both are run by unscrupulous individuals to say the least, regardless of whether they stay on the 'correct' side of the law, sit on top, or try to do both at the same time (to finish my pre-Friday rambling with a little diversion inton quantum mechanics)
Live your life in such a way that you never have to have a spokesman say: “he has no recollection of using the phrase ‘bags of cash’, and believes he did not do so. However if those words were used, they will have been entirely in jest.”
If it were me I’d have no recollection of saying “bags of cash” either, much easier to use “sacks of cash” which would hold more and require less of them. Could be more environmentally friendly that way if we’re talking plastic bags/sacks.
The fact the term "bags of cash" comes up "in jest" means that in other parts of that conversation large sums of money must have been discussed, otherwise there is no context to make such a "jest". (Or optionally that the work was by force and there was no compensation but I find that highly unlikely)
Some of our more clueful legislators like Ted Lieu or Ron Wyden have been raising the issue of SS7’s terrible security for years, or more precisely its utter lack of any security, so far to no avail. Next generation signaling protocols like Diameter are a little better, but telcos have to invest in firewalls and audit tools for their signaling networks, something they are clearly unwilling to do. Note that this is not just applicable to legacy telco crap like SS7, BGP security is also a shambles.
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