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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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[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 19 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

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

Jfc, we cooked

[–] Ptsf@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 3 points 5 hours ago

Kind of feels almost intentional.

It do feel like that a lot of times tbh

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago

These people coming to power everywhere are not opposed to cartels as much as they are to obnoxious pests talking about democracy, freedom, representation, law, justice.

So - this is not surprising. The facilities for tracking people being instituted all over the world in the last 10 (at least, in fact much more) years were from the beginning designed to accommodate for needs of what these people see as legitimate power. Including cartels.

And if there are patriotic people in such organizations as FBI, they should by now firmly understand that this shit is against their purpose. Unfortunately, various special services have always attracted people of a different kind.