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From that line and a few others in the article Amazon doesn't seem to be involved at all. It seems like there was a Gmail account created to receive feedback, corrections, reviews, and media outreach that was also supposed to be relatively anonymous but was registered with his actual name which would be visible to anyone that he responded to at the very least, but may also show up through other account associations.

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The article also said he created that email specifically for the book to deal with queries. So it's possible there's more to it.

> Contacted by the Guardian, an IDF spokesperson said the email address was not Sariel’s personal one, but “dedicated specifically for issues to do with the book itself”.

I figured it wasn’t “small nation state bug discovered in supply chain” but rather “yea, he used his real name”.

It's always a small detail that gets you... You only have to fail once for your OPSEC to crumble into nothing.

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