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View submission: The UnitedHealthcare Gunman Understands the Surveillance State
How did the assassin know Johnson would be at that hotel for the investor’s conference, and walking out that door at that specific time? Seems like intimate knowledge.
Comment by Firm-Constant8560 at 07/12/2024 at 06:56 UTC
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Figuring out he's going to the meeting in a rough time window isn't a leap, but knowing which of the 3 directions he'd be coming from, and that he'd be alone is interesting though. Simple solution to that is there were two assassins, one on each side of the meeting venue.
Figuring out which hotel isn't necessary and has many options: getting info from front desks, following the CEO from somewhere else, hacked email account, etc.
Comment by o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-c at 07/12/2024 at 07:04 UTC
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Lots of ways.
Social engineering by calling his secretary and sussing out his availability that way - but probably not this because that involves recorded contact.
Phishing or a planted usb could also allow someone to get into an unsecured part of the system - from my experience in an infosec adjacent company, medical orgs have THE WORST tech security because they’re John Hammond and don’t pay for that shit. Maybe patient files are secured, but the outlook/calendar password is “UnitedHealth” and the hospital admin have poor user profile separation, so the computer used by reception has almost as much access as a computer used by the exec, they just regulate access via login credentials.
The most likely explanation however, is that investor and board meetings are often on a predictable schedule and often publicly announced.
Comment by atleft at 07/12/2024 at 07:05 UTC
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Maybe he didn't and it was a lucky guess. There just wouldn't be any news that case, it's basically survivorship bias.
Comment by HOSTfromaGhost at 07/12/2024 at 13:30 UTC
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CEOs are key players at these conferences. More likely to be found there than at the birth of their children.
Oh wait, maybe a bad example…