> Hello. Fires are dangerous. Here is how fire burns down a school. Thankfully, we've invented a fire extinguisher.
Heh. Shakedowns are a legitimate way of doing business these days. Invent the threat, sell the solution.
Sidestory: I'm convinced the weird "audio glitch" that hit American Airlines in 2022-09 was the work of a cybersecurity firm trying to drum up business for themselves. Their CEO (hello, David) had just a few months earlier personally submitted to AA's CEO a vaguely-worded and entirely-unverifiable incident report suggesting American's inflight wifi provider's payment portal or something had been compromised by The Chinese-- and blamed an unnamed flight attendant for destroying all evidence by forcing him to immediately shut down his laptop.
So no evidence, no screenshots, no artifacts verifying he was even on that flight, implied involvement of foreign boogeymen, adverse action taken by malicious/anonymous witnesses, and when pressed for technical details, the reporter dodged questions and feigned ignorance (when asked for his MAC address, he returned one for a virtual adapter and stopped responding). A few months later, AA has a public PA system incident that perplexed everyone and gets attributed to vague "mechanical failure." Could be coincidence, but everything about the former incident screamed of a cybersecurity vendor chasing sales by sowing unverifiable FUD in bad faith. I don't put it past them to engage in "harmless" sabotage.
Heh. Shakedowns are a legitimate way of doing business these days. Invent the threat, sell the solution.
Sidestory: I'm convinced the weird "audio glitch" that hit American Airlines in 2022-09 was the work of a cybersecurity firm trying to drum up business for themselves. Their CEO (hello, David) had just a few months earlier personally submitted to AA's CEO a vaguely-worded and entirely-unverifiable incident report suggesting American's inflight wifi provider's payment portal or something had been compromised by The Chinese-- and blamed an unnamed flight attendant for destroying all evidence by forcing him to immediately shut down his laptop.
So no evidence, no screenshots, no artifacts verifying he was even on that flight, implied involvement of foreign boogeymen, adverse action taken by malicious/anonymous witnesses, and when pressed for technical details, the reporter dodged questions and feigned ignorance (when asked for his MAC address, he returned one for a virtual adapter and stopped responding). A few months later, AA has a public PA system incident that perplexed everyone and gets attributed to vague "mechanical failure." Could be coincidence, but everything about the former incident screamed of a cybersecurity vendor chasing sales by sowing unverifiable FUD in bad faith. I don't put it past them to engage in "harmless" sabotage.