Talk:Jeff Bezos phone hacking incident

Bezos' or Bezos's?
Courtesy pinging I think Bezos's is actually correct, per MOS:POSS. Curious to see thoughts on this. (Title and instances throughout the article would have to be changed. Consistency is key.) Bobbychan193 (talk) 22:52, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
 * I made them all Bezos', to be consistent with the article title. But if someone wants to change them all to Bezos's (including the article title), I have no objections. I was simply making them consistent. Joseph2302 (talk) 09:38, 14 March 2020 (UTC)
 * It looks like the references are mostly Bezos' (one is Bezos's); both the New York Times and Washington Post seem to agree on that, and Bezos owns the WP so that may influence their usage. I'm not sure that helps; my instinct would probably be to use "Bezos's". BlueMoonset (talk) 14:52, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
 * I will make it Bezos's as WP style is guided by WP:MOS, not NYT. —GoldRingChip
 * Strunk and White's Elements of Style would also say Bezos's. Geo Swan (talk) 16:41, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

timeline
The timeline is off -- the article says that the investigation of Bezo's phone began in January of 2018, but the goes on to say the whatsapp message was sent in May of 2018, which seems to be indicating the investigation began before the hack? --valereee (talk) 10:47, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Excuse me, you are right. this is my mistake. According to washingtonpost, telegraph, theguardian, businessinsider and  cnbc, the investigation of Bezos phone began in January of 2019. M1nhm (talk) 06:33, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

sentence fragment
Not sure what this sentence is supposed to say: De Becker claimed that "the close relationship" between bin Salman and David Pecker, the chief executive of the company that owned the Enquirer, in the months before the Bezos texts were issued. It's missing what De Becker was claiming. --valereee (talk) 10:15, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Okay, I've fixed that one and several others. I don't know what this one means: Saudi experts, dissidents and analysts believed Bezos's coverage of critical columns on Khashoggi's death against Mohammed bin Salman and his struggle of repression against activists and intellectuals made Bezos a target of the prince. It seems to be trying to be two sentences. --valereee (talk) 10:56, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Think I'm done --valereee (talk) 11:48, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Technical details...
The article has no technical details as to how the hack occurred, beyond saying someone using Salman's phone sent Bezos a WhatsApp message. This leaves ambigous as to whether it was a normal message, with an embedded url to a malware site, which Bezos, or maybe his secretary, trustingly clicked on, or whether the WhatsApp message looked innocuous, but exploited a security hole in WhatsApp, to invisibly inject an infection onto Bezos's phone. In the later case did Bezos have to read the message to get infected? Geo Swan (talk) 16:52, 10 May 2020 (UTC)
 * - I've now written this into the article: . As for your questions, I don't think the report actually answered them.  starship .paint  (talk) 15:08, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

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Solomon Nartey
Solomon Nartey @ 154.160.2.123 (talk) 10:02, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

WhatsApp hacking
Hacking to whatsapp 2409:40D4:1018:A78F:8000:0:0:0 (talk) 11:19, 8 July 2024 (UTC)