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Re:“I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure” by LegitShady on Friday February 12, 2021 @11:47AM (#26115567)
It's all about plausible deniability.
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Re:“I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure” by qeternity on Friday February 12, 2021 @02:16PM (#26117394)
Or as law enforcement call it: parallel construction.

The sales rep was probably expected to reach out claiming some other reason, making it look like the standard LinkedIn spam, but in reality much more targeted.

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Re:“I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure” by SilasX on Friday February 12, 2021 @02:31PM (#26117574)
Yep, and the purported “retraining” will probably be more like, “use a vaguer or falser pretense to cold-call”.
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