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Behind the Bastards

Part Two: That Time eBay's Private Spies Went To War With Some Bloggers

Behind the Bastards

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🗓️ 5 September 2024

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Robert and Jason continue the thrilling story of this Jim Baugh and Ebay's war against some elderly bloggers.

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Sources:

Inside eBay’s Cockroach Cult: The Ghastly Story of a Stalking Scandal - The New York Times (archive.is)

Investigation into eBay continues after stalking scandal | 60 Minutes - CBS News

U.S. Criminally Charges EBay in Cyberstalking Case - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

At eBay, Lurid Crimes and the Search for Punishment - The New York Times (archive.is)

Lawsuit: eBay tried to “terrorize, stalk, and silence” couple that ran news site | Ars Technica

‘Cyber Mercenaries’: Israel’s Spyware Industry Is Getting Slammed Around the World - Israel News - Haaretz.com (archive.is)

Hackers Reveal Offers to Spy on Corporate Rivals - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

https://www.ecommercebytes.com/011124-docs/Information.pdf

https://hackernoon.com/the-notorious-walkers-west-fallout-inside-ebays-disturbing-retribution-tactics

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/22/ebay-shares-surge-on-elliott-management-1point4-billion-stake.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/22/ebay-shares-surge-on-elliott-management-1point4-billion-stake.html

https://archive.is/TLa2d

https://puck.news/a-spy-in-silicon-valley/

https://www.theguardian.com/media/blog/2011/dec/07/thomson-reuters-merger-failings

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/may/15/reuters.pressandpublishing

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0:00.0

Call's media.

0:02.0

Oh my gosh, welcome back to Behind The Bastards, a podcast that recently also

0:10.4

pivoted to video, but not this week for me. You are seeing

0:14.4

Jason, you're seeing some sort of animated version of me right now, because every

0:18.8

week my camera does something different for reasons that are unfathomable to me and deeply frustrating.

0:26.3

I love pivoting to video, Jason. That's something you and I both have great experiences with and

0:30.5

it's working really well. There's a wonderful little lesson here, listeners,

0:36.0

because Robert is using a very fancy actual camera,

0:41.0

the type of which you would use to film a professional video. I am using a $50

0:46.0

dollar logitech web camera that has no buttons on it. There's not a single button.

0:50.5

And you look fine. There's no software that operated. No, I can't do. I can't screw up the setup of it because I never did

0:56.8

anything. I plugged in the little USB cord and I appeared. If anything

1:01.1

else other than that had happened, I would have been helpless.

1:04.1

Yeah, and that's how we used to do things before we recorded video and it looked fine.

1:09.0

And then we got a camera that also looked fine, but breaks periodically because I don't know why. Anyway, Jason, do you think we should bomb all of the power plants and return to living in caves like our ancestors fighting bears for

1:27.8

for scarce resources.

1:29.8

Those are my favorite social media accounts that talk about like we need to get back to when we are all just each growing our own food. That's when the standard of living was higher back when we all when one blight could wipe out your crops and

1:45.9

your whole family would starve. It's the yeah I just it would be so much more refreshing to deal with a bear right now than a camera.

1:57.0

I understand a bear, right? You know, bears are very easy.

2:01.0

They have very, very obvious once and needs.

2:03.8

I don't have to figure out how a shudder works for a bear.

2:06.6

I just have to figure out how to get higher than the bear

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