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Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data, demanding $20M ransom

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410 points gpi | 2 comments | 15 May 25 15:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.575s | source
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sroussey ◴[15 May 25 16:45 UTC] No.43996825[source]▶
Employees at Signal must be getting bribes as well, or even threats of violence since they can get nation state Secret communications these days.

Got to make it so employees can’t do anything nefarious. This helps protect them.

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lawn ◴[15 May 25 16:47 UTC] No.43996839[source]▶
How would employees of Signal access the encrypted messages?
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1. sitkack ◴[15 May 25 16:56 UTC] No.43996933[source]▶
Employees can't get access to encrypted messages.

But they can look the other way about flaws in their Electron client.

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2. sroussey ◴[15 May 25 18:29 UTC] No.43997857[source]▶
Or any client.