nah, they just told him who had hits out on him, and that he’d be fed to the wolves if he didn’t help.
The protective punishment of the state is probably a lot lighter than the street justice of global networks of criminal gangs.
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shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
He was being intimidated by men with guns. I suspect he probably willingly gave it up. Or it was written down somewhere, as you mentioned. Either that or he had it stored rather insecurely on his device such as in a notes app or something.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 1 month ago
PeachMan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah, they probably just guessed his Google Drive password lol
fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
The old password deciphering wrench attack. xkcd.com/538/