A tech guru is waging a war on major media outlets across three continents, hiring a “media assassin” law firm to kill stories connecting him to “hacks-for-hire” controversy.
"An Indian venture capitalist is mounting an international legal campaign to pressure major media outlets to remove his name from articles or take down the stories altogether, Confider has learned.
In a move that has press freedom campaigners troubled, Rajat Khare, co-founder of Appin, an India-based tech company, has used a variety of law firms in a number of different jurisdictions to threaten these U.S., British, Swiss, Indian, and French-language media organizations."
His name is Rajat Khare. Streisand effect activate !
And the original story is that:
On Nov. 16, Reuters published a special investigation under the headline “How an Indian startup hacked the world,” detailing how Appin allegedly became a “hack for hire powerhouse that stole secrets from executives, politicians, military officials and wealthy elites around the globe”
I share the sentiment. But it’s a little tacky to call for a Streisand effect. It’s like saying “guys, I’m a cool dude, right?!”
Edit: bros, I know what the Streisand effect is. I just think it’s tacky that someone says “hey, let’s go Streisand effect on this person!”
Its the literal definition of Streisand effect. For example, I had no clue who this guy was till I read the story about him suppressing media.
Sounds like someone new is going to find out about the Striesand effect. I didn’t glance at the story the first time it came around but I made sure to read it this time
I certainly didn’t know who Rajat Khare was before, but it appears billionaire Rajat Khare needs to learn his lesson for trying to keep his hame clean from this “hacks-for-hire” scheme.
Archive link for the unregistered: https://archive.ph/KYlZw
There was a Mastodon post yesterday from Reuters about Rajat Khare, this post contained the article OP posted and a link to an even more interesting article about the Indian Hacking for hire that this scumbag is responsible for:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-crime/a-confession-exposes-indias-secret-hacking-industry
