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The Arizona woman the article refers to was sentenced to 102 months in prison for her role in this scheme: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/arizona-woman-sentenced-17m-i...

Pretty fascinating stuff.

Reminds me of the Michael Crichton "Mousetrap" story which was published at the top of the Wargames craze:

https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/41417/michael-c...

I’ve come across two of these in the last few years of running interviews.

All you have to do is ask about where they live and what they like about it. One, when asked about living in a dead-flat suburb of Houston, said he liked the mountains.

A employee of an Amazon contractor...

Article is clear as mud, and its sourcing Bloomberg, on who has sketchy reputation on this type of stories.

Mind boggling. But well done Amazon.

So if I'm reading this right, all the NK perpetrators have to do "next time", is to have a local remote-desktop as a proxy?

When you work for Amazon, your computer is monitored to the point they check your keyboard typing speed. Dystopian doesn't even begin to describe it.

This is kind of dystopian if you think about it — they’re collecting all kinds of data from their workers. They probably can clock you in and out of your bathroom breaks automagically at some point soon.

Amazon doesn't care that it hired malnourished slaves in sanctioned countries or that warehouse workers are subjected to extreme screening procedures and lack of accommodations to universal biology that lead to urination in bottles in the US and UK, they only care that it makes them lose profits from boycott blowback from bad PR.

This is a side channel defense.