Amazon's homepage was down

Re:Amazon's homepage was down by greghinch on Thursday January 31, 2013 @03:49PM (#5147362)

Given that you would be an Amazon employee with a solid audit trail leading back to you in that scenario, I'd say it's pretty likely you'd be caught and prosecuted rather quickly.

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Re:Amazon's homepage was down by stcredzero on Friday February 01, 2013 @01:47AM (#5149595)

Yes, I and my coworkers could've sold the realtime trades of a petroleum multinational to the highest bidder, including ones that hadn't happened yet. That would've been easy, and would've been worth 100's of millions to someone. Not getting caught and having your life ruined -- that was scary and would've been hard. Now, if I was working for a sovereign power, like China, and my life was there anyhow, then pulling stuff like that in the US wouldn't be so hard.

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Re:Amazon's homepage was down by greghinch on Friday February 01, 2013 @08:49AM (#5150620)

When did amazon start selling petroleum futures?

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Re:Amazon's homepage was down by stcredzero on Friday February 01, 2013 @09:02AM (#5150691)

Amazon is not a petroleum multinational. Guess again.

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