Re: "six-eyes" policy - get the PDF!
Anybody who's read this far should really get the PDF and read that. You can skip the financial stuff, but that's fascinating too - at least one bank thought CITI was deliberately buying the loan as part of an aggressive refinancing scheme that had triggered a lawsuit that was almost ready for filing when suddenly the loan got paid off!
This is going to be a case study in business school, whatever comp sci morphs into, and law school. The facts of this particular situation meet a specific New York legal exemption to the rule that misdirected wire transfers have to be returned to sender, based on an almost perfect fit to a 1991 precedent. The court actually sounds reluctant to reach the "you get to keep it" verdict.
The Russians really don't need to do anything with the information they are collecting through their SolarWinds project. They can just sit back, grab a brewski or two, and watch as we spontaneously disassemble ourselves.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
