Я позвонил своему убийце. Он признался

Why HN readers recommended it

Praised as a remarkable piece of social engineering, spoofed caller ID plus pretexting, that produced direct evidence of the poisoning.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Алексей Навальный

Topic

navalny poisoning investigation

Format

interview

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

5

Recommendation years in dataset

2020–2021

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From the original HN conversations

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• Related: the video of Navalny calling one of the FSB agents who poisoned him is definitely the best prank of 2020 [1]. (Video has English subs) Watching Navalny grill Konstantin Kudryavtsev about why they failed to kill Navalny (flight quickly grounded, quick medical aid on …

• This is a bit off-topic, but Navalny calling his killer and pranking him into telling all kinds of nasty details of Navalny's own killing attempt is mind-bogging [1]. I am sure this is now part of all secrets services of the world 101 trainings. Full …

• In case you missed it: Navalny found conclusive evidence of a cover-up for his poisoning [1] [2] [3]. But the best part is how he did it: caller ID spoof + social engineering. IMO exploiting the authoritarian nature/culture was really clever. Every time Kudryavtsev demurs …