Little did I imagine that the entire world would turn into my humble home town of Las Vegas NV.
The fact that these knobs would memorialize their actions and intentions in emails indicates breathtaking levels of either ignorance or assumed impunity.
I used to have to ride herd on a bunch of Russian “scientists” (spys, more accurately) who insisted upon going to one specific club in Vegas every time they came out to monitor nuclear wep test events (as was the custom back in those days). 😑
My conversations with the owner of that club informed me as to the myriad ways they avoided oversight, taxes, and general accountability for essentially running a brothel inside the city limits (no… it never has been “legal” in Vegas, despite the marketing campaign).
Even they knew not to discuss anything in any environment subject to recording and especially not on telephones.
In my experience, texts are even easier for LE to gather, and more incriminating as users fire these things off with more laxity and poser bro-emotion.
Hey, I’m surrounded (involuntarily) by CFO types, both inside and outside the Tech realm.
Is it just my perception that the opportunistic bean counters have taken over the CFO community and pushed anyone that might offer genuine managerial competence to the side, or is that just my personal experience?
Little did I imagine that the entire world would turn into my humble home town of Las Vegas NV.
The fact that these knobs would memorialize their actions and intentions in emails indicates breathtaking levels of either ignorance or assumed impunity.
I used to have to ride herd on a bunch of Russian “scientists” (spys, more accurately) who insisted upon going to one specific club in Vegas every time they came out to monitor nuclear wep test events (as was the custom back in those days). 😑
My conversations with the owner of that club informed me as to the myriad ways they avoided oversight, taxes, and general accountability for essentially running a brothel inside the city limits (no… it never has been “legal” in Vegas, despite the marketing campaign).
Even they knew not to discuss anything in any environment subject to recording and especially not on telephones.
And, yet… emails.
Incredible.
Thanks for your efforts.
Pretty dumb to document all of it….probably thought they were safe because a lot of it was via texts…
In my experience, texts are even easier for LE to gather, and more incriminating as users fire these things off with more laxity and poser bro-emotion.
Hey, I’m surrounded (involuntarily) by CFO types, both inside and outside the Tech realm.
Is it just my perception that the opportunistic bean counters have taken over the CFO community and pushed anyone that might offer genuine managerial competence to the side, or is that just my personal experience?
Thanks
Great article! How did you find this story?
By being online too much :)