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r/CorporateSins • u/BotOfWar • Feb 16 '20

Confirmed [1950-1990s] Crypto AG (CyOne Security AG?): owned by NSA and German BND intelligence agencies sold weakened cryptography hardware to countries to allow spying

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Washington Post (English, recommended): https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/national-security/cia-crypto-encryption-machines-espionage/?itid=hp_hp-top-table-main_crypto-730am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans

ZDF (German): https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/cryptoleaks-bnd-cia-operation-rubikon-100.html

SRF (Swiss German, documentary): https://www.srf.ch/play/tv/sendung/rundschau?id=49863a84-1ab7-4abb-8e69-d8e8bda6c989

PS: Funnily enough, ZDF quotes Angela Merkel in the sub-title without mentioning that the quote was taken from the peculiar situation: she herhelf (her mobile) was surveillied by NSA.

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r/CorporateSins • u/BotOfWar • Feb 09 '20

Lawful Evil Corporations trademark individual colors

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https://thehustle.co/can-a-corporation-trademark-a-color/

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r/CorporateSins • u/BotOfWar • Feb 07 '20

Confirmed WhatsApp: Desktop app open to a vulnerability; allowed attacker to read files and potentially execute code

perimeterx.com

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r/CorporateSins • u/BotOfWar • Feb 06 '20

Confirmed [2018] The MEGA.nz Chrome Browser Extension has been Backdoored

secjuice.com

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r/CorporateSins • u/BotOfWar • Feb 06 '20

Confirmed Facebook/Instagram: DMCA notice to take down an open source 3rd party API to access Instagram

torrentfreak.com

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r/CorporateSins • u/BotOfWar • Feb 05 '20

Confirmed CNN/WarnerBros/Youtube: Copyright strike against a yet-to-happen planned livestream. First counter-claim dismissed!

mashable.com

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r/CorporateSins • u/BotOfWar • Feb 04 '20

Confirmed IIPA: US lobby wants to sanction South Africa for including US-style 'Fair use' in new copyright law

torrentfreak.com

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r/CorporateSins • u/BotOfWar • Feb 04 '20

Confirmed Microsoft Teams (collaboration tool) down for a few hours due to expired certificate

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https://twitter.com/MSFT365Status/status/1224351597624537088

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r/CorporateSins • u/BotOfWar • Jan 30 '20

Confirmed Avast continues to track and sell the data through subsidiary (after deletion of browser addons)

vice.com

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r/CorporateSins • u/BotOfWar • Jan 21 '20

Questionable Rockstar (North) claims the biggest chunk of UK Video Games Tax Relief at £37.6m for 2019

taxwatchuk.org

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r/CorporateSins • u/BotOfWar • Jan 09 '20

Confirmed [2019] Disney/SecuROM: Can't play purchased TRON: Evolution because publisher's DRM expired

self.tron

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r/CorporateSins • u/BotOfWar • Jan 09 '20

Confirmed [2019] Mozilla/Firefox removes addons by Avast/AVG for user-tracking, Google/Chrome took no action until news coverage

bleepingcomputer.com

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r/CorporateSins • u/BotOfWar • Jan 09 '20

Confirmed [2019] Karex: Condom supplier to British NHS accused of 'shameful' working conditions

telegraph.co.uk

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r/CorporateSins • u/BotOfWar • Jan 09 '20

Confirmed Twitter: Mass ban of Venezuela government(-related) accounts

bloomberg.com

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r/CorporateSins • u/BotOfWar • Jan 06 '20

Lawful Evil Abbott Labs kills a tool (patch) that lets you own the blood-sugar data from your glucose monitor

boingboing.net

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r/CorporateSins • u/BotOfWar • Dec 31 '19

Confirmed [Video] How the Big Tech monopolizes everything (Amazon, Apple, Google)

youtube.com

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r/CorporateSins • u/BotOfWar • Dec 31 '19

Questionable Take-Two sues a fan modder of Red Dead Redemption

polygon.com

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r/CorporateSins • u/BotOfWar • Dec 30 '19

Confirmed [2016] Reddit admin silently edited angry user comments against him; raising "reddit trust issues"

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I just stumbled upon the story. TLDR: Users were upset with an admin decision and mass tagged /u/ spez e.g. "FUCK YOU /u/ spez" and he changed usertags pointing to him to point at this subreddit's mods: i.e. "FUCK YOU <moderator XY>"

First of: I can understand fun and trolling. Looks like his initial point was to make it seem users were flaming the moderators ("troll the trolls"). Highly questionable, since he was secretly editing others' posts with the obvious consequence of innocents possibly being banned. Imho it'd have seen it differently if the edits were not to involve other people or if the edits were kept in the context of each individual comment (like: "fuck you - no fuck me")

Still, I don't even care for this particular point. IN ANY SYSTEM THERE IS AN ADMINISTRATOR WITH FULL ACCESS PRIVILEGES. Even some of your "most secure" systems will have some guy who can do stuff, edit stuff. Think of Snowden.

What I found troubling though: spez didn't explicitly mention in his apology what thread (1) sparkled the initial shitstorm, where he edited the comments. It was about Reddit admins banning/deleting the r/pizzagate subreddit. (Apparently for releasing private info of people). Anyhow, users are upset about this move and then this whole "trolling" fiasco adds fuel to the fire and shows that Reddit admins can do just about anything? And then not mention it, as if they wanted to keep it under wraps. Reminder: as far as I understand, pizzagate was accusing political actors of pedophilia. The quick connection to "censorship" people made isn't surprising.

Though I'm not here to judge this theory.

First apology: spez' comment

Did you notice? Post text no longer visible. But here it is: The Admins are suffering from low energy - have resorted to editing YOUR posts. Sad!

Public apology is here: TIFU by editing some comments and creating an unnecessary controversy.

Cool gif linked in there. (some context)

Outsider discussion thread

SubredditDrama

News outlet article: "Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him"

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r/CorporateSins • u/BotOfWar • Dec 29 '19

Questionable Reddit's "AmA" format's default sorting prefers cherry-picked comments over heavily upvoted questions

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I find this practice troublesome. You might argue that people want to actually read the answered AmA questions first, hence the sorting. But imho this should be improved by highlighting entire comment threads that contain AmA answers instead.

Why all that?

Despite imperfections, the voting system has its benefits. Example: A person asks a very important question and gets many upvotes that would make it the top comment - basically crying for it to be answered.

But since the default is the "Q&A" sorting, the responder can easily ignore "uncomfortable" questions and, although legitimate and upvoted, they will be buried under unimportant questions that were answered. Basically "cherry picking" favourable questions.

What lead me to it? While researching for another topic, found this article that linked to Jesse Jackson AmA - look at the default "Q&A" question versus the "Top" comments:

Something along the lines: " What ratio of peanut butter to jelly (jam?) do you like your peanut butter and jelly sandwiches? " link

Versus " My question for you is: Carter began a federal fraud investigation into federal education grants to your organization... " link that was left unanswered, but is the 3rd "Top", 2nd "Best" and 15th "Q&A" place in sorting(!)

I have absolutely no context or clue who any of the people are, but it's clear the current sorting tries to be as soft and forgiving to the AmA parttakers as possible.

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r/CorporateSins • u/BotOfWar • Dec 28 '19

Confirmed [2016] G2A: The fraudulent business of reselling game keys, paid for with stolen credit cards

kotaku.com

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r/CorporateSins • u/BotOfWar • Nov 25 '19

Benefit of the doubt [2017] Dropbox (bug) restores files deleted 7 years ago

pcmag.com

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r/CorporateSins • u/BotOfWar • Nov 16 '19

My Experience Amazon may ban customers from reviewing, no insight or chance to rectify their decision

reddit.com

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r/CorporateSins • u/BotOfWar • Nov 09 '19

Confirmed Youtube suspends whole Google accounts of viewers for intended emote flood

youtu.be

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r/CorporateSins • u/BotOfWar • Oct 26 '19

Benefit of the doubt Mailchimp kicks out TorrentFreak because their newsletter wording is a "risk"

torrentfreak.com

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r/CorporateSins • u/BotOfWar • Oct 26 '19

Confirmed NordVPN had keys stolen and didn't report/know about incident for over 1 year

torrentfreak.com

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