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Re:'Patient zero' in cyberattack on UN aviation agency was o... by mcguire on Thursday January 30, 2020 @12:57PM (#22193514)
"Smith writes that he was told in a Feb. 25 email from ICAO's chief information security officer, Si Nguyen Vo, that the laptop of a former ICAO IT officer, Maxim Aliu, was infected while he was on a trip to the agency's regional office in Beijing in 2010.

"Maxim Aliu is the son of ICAO's current council president, Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu, who was Nigeria's representative on the council in 2010."

The "official's son" in the headline is misleading. This isn't the case of someone's child hosing up their laptop.

It may, however, be a case of nepotism and gross organizational idiocy.

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Re:'Patient zero' in cyberattack on UN aviation agency was o... by zach_garwood on Thursday January 30, 2020 @02:07PM (#22194313)
It's not misleading at all. Mentioning "son" in this context was to imply nepotism, not to attempt to mislead the reader into thinking the son is a child.
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Re:'Patient zero' in cyberattack on UN aviation agency was o... by andrewwharton on Thursday January 30, 2020 @03:53PM (#22195452)
After reading only the headline, I for one assumed it was the official's child, so it's at least somewhat misleading, perhaps not intentionally though.
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Re:'Patient zero' in cyberattack on UN aviation agency was o... by jolmg on Thursday January 30, 2020 @04:22PM (#22195787)
At least personally, I generally don't assume son or daughter imply age. It's just the relationship. Here's an example headline where the son was almost 100 years old[1]:

> JRR Tolkien's son Christopher dies aged 95

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/16/jrr-tolkiens-s...

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