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I'm thinking it's just misdirection (along with some other parts of the video).

I saw some nice attention to detail in the video so I would be surprised if something like that was an accident.

Seeing as how the person he is allegedly imitating also works in security and ostensibly would have the means to commit the hack--and who is also Spanish--this seems like a shitty thing to do.

Definitely a shitty thing to do, I can't imagine law enforcement won't investigate Chema after seeing that.

I don't understand the language though so there may be other relevant details I'm missing.

No way.

I also noticed that it's 23:14 on his local time, and 05:14 on the local time of the VPS. Assuming he didn't change his clock, that tells you he's 6 hours behind the VPS.

We also see TZ "CLT" aka "Chilean Standard Time" (4 hours left of UTC, 6 hours left of Spain) which fits neatly with previous speculation (here and elsewhere) of Chilean origin (language characteristics).

Assuming it's not all carefully orchestrated or multiple correspondents or...

Explanation: https://twitter.com/GammaGroupPR/status/733653805745733632