Who's in your wallet?

I was going to say that if this was a dude I bet Manning 2 occurs, but it looks like that already happened.

Was wise to drop out of school instead of writing folk tales about rational actors, I say.

And I’m sure plenty of Amazonians call themselves socialists, just like plenty of academians consider “entrepreneur” to be a bad word.

It’s easier when you’re taken care of.

I remember an article on a band bashing Amazon, but only after one or more of their members had lost their job there.

For most, convictions only count for style points.

Capitalists are bad? Really now Katie. You work for a capitalist and as an employee you're a capitalist. Shoot thyself.

The William Gibson Version: Former Bank Hack Allegedly Behind Amazon Worker

I wonder if bragging and getting caught is sort of the Hacker equivalent of doing a mass shooting? It's not primarily a crime for the sake of the payoff, nor an act of terror to serve some ideological agenda., It's more along the lines of "Look at me!". Perhaps?

I've been amusing myself by observing which news outlets include a brief description and/or photo of Paige Thompson in their reporting on this story, and which ones don't.

@8 Dude looks like a lady?

"Besides, how many anti-capitalists work for Amazon?"

A fair number. Not a majority or anything, but overrepresented relative to the general population.

@10 I think the relevance is that the hacker allegedly took advantage of employment at AWS gain access to third-party data on their S3 cloud storage service, though that detail isn't included in every writeup of the story.

It's worth reporting. It does not reflect well on Amazon's internal security, if true. And it serves as a cautionary tale to firms considering cloud storage for their sensitive data, or backups thereof.