Russian journalist who fled to Paris dies in plunge from apartment.

[Jacson6]

HORROR PLUNGE Russian journalist who fled to Paris dies in plunge from apartment & leaves mystery note about calls being ‘intercepted’
The journalist believed his phone to have been 'infected by hackers' before his death

https://www.the-sun.com/news/15750858/russian-journalist-plunge-apartment-death-mystery-note/

[chicoescuela]

1. Shocking

[DJ Synikus Makisimus]

2. Damn Russians really gotta stop trying to fly. (n/t)

[Coventina]

3. Those anti-Putin Russians sure are clumsy!

[FakeNoose]

4. Don't they have burner phones in Paris?

On second thought, it probably wouldn't have mattered. Pootie would have found him anyway, especially since he was regularly posting stuff online.

[LastDemocratInSC]

5. They need to carry around base jumping gear.

Boy Scout motto: Be Prepared.

[Xolodno]

6. In order to enter the Russian Federation, you must answer these simple questions.

The official language of Russia is?
Very difficult.

How many nuclear weapons does Russia posses?
I don't know.
That's right, you don't know.

What is Russia's biggest export?
Spies

What is Russia's biggest import?
Sovereign States.

What odorless, colorless and tasteless drink is Russia known for?
Novichok.

What is the most dangerous job in Russia?
Opposition party leader.

[LudwigPastorius]

7. Vlad Putin may be a short fuck in stature, but he's got a long reach.

[oasis]

8. Dangerous profession if you're a truth teller.

[CTyankee]

9. Defenestration is the word for it, I believe. Damn windows!

[DFW]

10. LOTS of phones are tapped in Europe. Mine is.

Supposedly, it is impossible to find out unless you have a friend in your local government willing to risk his/her job to tell you. I happen to have some ex (sorta) Mossad friends who have the capacity to find out “if” but not necessarily “who,” and as long as some nameless government agency doesn’t start sending me bills for all the translation work, I don’t really give a rat’s ass. Before the wall fell (it became public later), East Germany used to listen in on millions of their citizens. Their socialist gestapo (called the MFS or “Stasi” for short) had so much information, they were drowning in it, and didn’t have the personnel to process it all.

[Buckeyeblue]

11. Who actually talks on real phones anymore?

[DFW]

14. We do.

The land line has been in our German house since it was built (not by us) in 1973. We got a new number, obviously, but never ditched the land line. We did use the phone before there were cell phones, believe it or not. The whole smoke signal routine never really caught on in Germany.

[hunter]

13. Processing that information is what all those "AI" data centers will be used for.

Big Brother will be watching all of us.

I put "AI" in quotes because whatever the hell it is it is not intelligent.

[DFW]

15. Having computers pluck key words out of phone calls has been around for decades

Say “Allah,” or any number of other key words, and computers will flag and mark for listening almost any phone call on any device. To program AI to recognize which of those conversations are potentially of interest, and to recognize every nuance in every known language and dialect would have to be a formidable task, though.

[hunter]

12. Trump probably has his signature murder method already worked out.

The "Epstein," perhaps?