This whole thing about the Bezos’ dickpics is running amok in the media with panel after breathless panel dribbling on ad nauseum. Wanking on over whether or not a nation state secret service intercepted those texts and photos or if AMI (The National Inquirer) hacked them with the help of sleazy private investigators and or the brother of the mistress has me apoplectic every time it’s thrust in my face on the news. I finally decided to put this post together with some sense making to counter all the stupid out there. Of course the funniest thing about all of this though is that I have yet to see any of the hacking talking heads that usually show up like Dave Kennedy being dragged out to assess how easy or hard it would be to just hack a phone or an account. Who knew they would not be clambering to get more news cycle attention to pimp their services huh? Anyway, let’s do a little dive into what Bezos likely has as a phone, how easy they are to hack, and how likely that a bad actor like MBS and his secret services, a paid group, or just the brother of the mistress with a grudge were the culprits shall we?
What phone does Bezos likely have and how hack-able is it?
According to the babbling of the news media, claims have been made that Bezos has security and as such his phone is likely harder to hack. Well, let’s put that to the test and see. I did some looking and as of 2017 he was still using a Fire Phone, his own product and that runs on Android. A little more Googling and you can see that it had seven vulns that included DoS and overflow attacks in 2018
FireOS is based on Android 4.2 JellyBean and that had a host of vulnerabilities as well. So unless Bezos was using some super secret hardened version of JellyBean or FireOS then it is likely that even with iterations today he might have, it is still quite hack-able in all reality. So with that information one has to wonder at all this reporting that it HAD TO BE a nation state or that this was some exotic attack on a hard target.
Sorry, no.
INCONCEIVABLE!
Meanwhile, if indeed Bezos had another phone, he was spotted before with ANOTHER model of phone (Samsung) which also uses Android as it’s base operating system. If you are in the hacking or security community, then you know that Android is a hot mess security wise because Google could really give a fuck, so there you have it. Unless Bezos decided to get a Black Phone (which still had issues) I am gonna say it would not be hard to hack him with a phish with a bad .apk file and own him.
Sorry media, go home, you’re drunk again.
The facts are that unless Bezos got his hands on an NSA encrypted and hardened phone like the one that Obama had (which was Blackberry) then it is likely trivial to attack his phone and own him. That’s the fact and everyone should take that into account when listening or watching these talking heads on TV. Of course, this is not to say that it wasn’t MBS or minions he hired or AMI that did this because these are TRIVIAL hacks and one could pay easily for someone to do it. It would not take the NSA or that level of nation state access intercepts to get the data Pecker has.
What are the odds that a bad password(s) and an automatic backup to the cloud are responsible here?
Right, so what about bad passwords? I mean hell, Manny’s password to all his secret bad dealings was “bond007” right? So is Bezos using a good password vault with 16 character passwords and rotating them often? Well, I cannot say, but what I can say is this; “security is hard and OPSEC is even harder for regular people” This means that it is entirely possible that Bezos password could have been weak and he may not have changed them as regularly as might be needed for someone who is a higher risk target right? I am sure he has minions and possibly a security detail, but, think about this, would you want your security detail to have your password to your dickpic mistress phone?
This also brings up another question…. Did he have a mistress phone? Something separate from his regular phone and hidden so the wife would not see? You have to ask yourselves this question as well when thinking about this whole “affair” right? Let’s say Bezos bought a burn phone and used that instead of his primary phone to send his dickpics and stupid stupid texts mooning to his side piece? It’s not something you would really want to have laying about for the wife to find and nothing that could be directly tied to you in some ways, I mean sure he sent photos of himself, not just his junk, so yeah, not the greatest OPSEC there either. But would such a phone have less security because it was not hardened by the security detail?
Hmmmm….
Either way, passwords and access to Google (since I think he is still using Android) is problematic and unless he had all the 2FA turned on and alerting, he could have easily been pwned due to his own stupidity with passwords and access security.
What are the chances that physical access to the mistresses phone are to blame?
Ahh this mistress… Well all of the things above could play with her as well. It could have also been physical access to the phone by others as well. Let’s face it, Sanchez could have been using her dogs name as a password to all her accounts for all we know. She is the weakest of weak points as far as I am concerned in the security picture in this story. It seems that a running theme in the story seems to be that the mistresses brother is tied into the Trump camp and its acolytes so there is a chance that he accessed her phone either physically or perhaps he had a password to gather the details and leaked them to AMI.
Think about that though….
You would have to be one cold bastard as a family member to hack into the sister’s phone and dump pics that seem to include some nudity on her part as well to AMI right? I mean that is some serious pathology there. Keep that in mind further down this post ok? *turns over standing presentation board with pics and yarn connections* So yeah, it could be the brother, or it could be anyone who had proximity to the phone and a desire to carry out this attack on her and Bezos.
I am unaware of what phone the mistress is using but I am willing to bet that she is not as security conscious as Bezos might be. It could even be that Bezos and her both had burn phones that were insecure, who knows right? Suffice to say that the mistress and her electronics hygiene may have in fact been the vector of the leak and everyone has to take that into account even if you are thinking that this was carried out by nation state actors like MBS or Russia. It would be a soft target campaign with phishing, physical access, and stupidity that would win the day and would not take that much effort really.
Was it a nation state intercepting Bezos and just handed this over to Pecker and AMI?
Speaking of nation state actors here’s the deal…
It’s quite possible. It would likely be trivial to attack the weak link (mistress) and gather all the intel. In fact, let’s suppose the nation state actors did do this, it would not only be dick pics that AMI might have. It is possible that they also have audio and video captures of phone calls and the like as well. How do we know that Bezos and the mistress didn’t make any videos together as well? Or perhaps little videos for one another?
Ponder that one too.
The fact of the matter is that nation state, hired hackers, or sleazy PI’s could all have done this and all have passed on even more dirt to use against Bezos and his mistress and it all sits somewhere in a safe on an external hard drive right? All I am saying is that there may be more to come in the future if at some other time AMI and or others decide to go nuclear on Bezos. I will sit back and watch the fires burn and sip my whiskey when it all comes down. At the end of the day it cannot be said that it wasn’t a nation state that did this and there are hints and allegations that AMI might have that avenue of interest with MBS and Saudi to have made this happen.
My biggest problem though with that is that it was so fucking hamfisted in it’s being carried out that makes me wonder if it wasn’t just AMI doing what they have been doing since they started their yellow journalism agitprop fuckery. I would hope that a nation state would be smoother than; “It would be a shame if something happened to that marriage you have there” but hey, we are in the Trump era of thuggery and clown cars full of Russians right? So yeah, entirely possible it was MBS in the conservatory with AMI and a phone hack. Time will tell though, but let’s not make this into a James Bond epic huh?
What are the chances that this was a honey-trap?
Ok, breaking out the muder conspiracy board here for the fun of it…
What if, just what if, this was a honeytrap? What if the mistress is like the brother and a Trump supporter? What if this was all a trap to get Bezos to back off by AMI and others using this woman wittingly or unwittingly? I mean, it is possible isn’t it? I am not saying it is likely but I am just gonna put that out there for you all. If I were looking to damage an adversary (perceived) like Bezos I might just hire hookers and get the good on him in a hotel that’s been wired, of course it would have to be a situation that Bezos doesn’t have a TSCM team sweeping rooms before he stays in them and such but yeah, that would be one way. Another might be to leverage someone in the orbit or put someone in the orbit who he can be enticed by and get the goods on him that way…
Ya know… like what we are seeing play out here right? This is exactly the sleazy way that espionage is carried out on the nation state level (blackmail) as it is on the AMI level of play. So this is not an impossibility. Is it likely in this case? Well, what do we know about Sanchez anyway? I guess a deeper look into her and her brother might be in order and is likely being done by the likes of the FBI right about now.
Giggity.
But yeah, with all the hyperventilation going on in the media, this is a possibility and I cannot just wipe this away as a not a thing.
Time will tell.
Forensics or GTFO!
Finally, I would like to once again yell at the media FORENSICS OR GET THE FUCK OUT! I would like to see some evidence that points to nation state hacking or intercepts of Bezos and the mistresses accounts or phones. Will we ever see this data? Well, who the hell knows really but it won’t stop me from yelling this out every time the media breathlessly makes claims that exotic espionage has been carried out on alleged hard targets who use Android phones!
STAAAAAAHHHHP
I eagerly await some evidence in this case but I don’t really expect any. I will keep an eye on it all but at the end of the day I just wanted to put this out there. It is not super secret nation state shit level stuff going on here. It may in fact be leveraged by MBS and his people but it is not something along the lines of them using SS-7 on Bezos and his mistress right?
Right?
Oh right, need forensics for that…
Derp.
K.
