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Sinaloa cartel used phone data and surveillance cameras to find FBI informants, DOJ says (www.aol.com)

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A hacker working for the Sinaloa drug cartel was able to obtain an FBI official's phone records and use Mexico City's surveillance cameras to help track and kill the agency's informants in 2018, the U.S. Justice Department said in a report issued on Thursday.

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago

The only news here for me is that cartels had this capabilities on 2018...

Jfc, we cooked

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

The mountain of tech debt, cultural debt, and real debt this country has built up over the past few decades in service of the billionaire has allowed for a lot of insanity. Kind of feels almost intentional.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Kind of feels almost intentional.

It do feel like that a lot of times tbh

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