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How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way

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Re: How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way

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Post by lmm »

throwntoday wrote: post #25
a_t48 wrote: post #18

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No - please do not use "it" as a catch-all pronoun for an unknown person. "It" is generally a dehumanizing term for a transgender person - though a minority use it as a pronoun (in those cases, go for it).

I can't even remember people's names after they introduce themselves how am I meant to remember their pronouns as well.

It would be such a shame if groups that pride themselves on inclusivity had a socially acceptable reason to exclude lower-class and neurodivergent people...

Re: How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way

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Post by Rhinozz »

toss1 wrote: post #46
Rhinozz wrote: post #35

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>>Remember the gatekeeper is now [...] unemployed [...] who "know lot's of things about cyber security" according to [its] main page. Seems likely a competent bad actor could easily impersonate a well-meaning reporter... ...and it has a Wikipedia article ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/maia_arson_crimew ), and has demonstrated in other cases (cf. https://www.dailydot.com/debug/feelyou-mental-health-app-dat... ) that…

Good to see that; thanks for digging deeper. I hope he has done this behind the scenes and the holes are patched, because I'm sure that by now, someone with worse intent has already followed those footsteps...

In the aforementioned Daily Dot article:

> CommuteAir added that the server, which was taken offline prior to publication after being flagged by the Daily Dot, did not expose any customer information based on an initial investigation.

As a side note, maia uses it/its pronouns.

Re: How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way

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Post by Waterluvian »

tzs wrote: post #41
codetrotter wrote: post #17

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> if “they” is being added to style guides as a way to refer to a singular human without implying any gender Hasn’t it always been the case that you could use “they” as a way to refer to a singular human without implying any gender? I seem to recall that “they” has been in use in that manner long before non-binary arguments were something I’d heard about.

"They" has been used as a singular pronoun as far back as the late 1300s, but for the case where you didn't know the gender of the person or the gender was not relevant. Using it for someone whose gender is gender is known but is not male or female is much newer. Here's an article with details [1]. The problem of what pronoun to use for someone who is neither male or female is not new, of course. That article says: >…

Wow TIL. That’s very interesting.

Re: How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way

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Post by Klonoar »

mrsuprawsm wrote: post #24
jkingsman wrote: post #5

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maia[0] (it/she pronouns) is almost certainly aware of that this is illegal, and has been indicted by a grand jury for other government hacks. shodan[1] is a search engine that deals in hosts and ip addresses rather than web pages, and is a goldmine for finding everything from exposed ip webcams to jenkins instances. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maia_arson_crimew [1]: https://www.shodan.io/

US law is neither a universal law nor an international one. Accessing computer systems owned by a US company based in the US might constitute a violation of US law, but the hacker is based in Switzerland - where US law does not apply. As you can see in the linked Wikipedia article, accessing these systems is probably not illegal in Switzerland, thus, for all intents and purposes, no crime was committed.

Switzerland has assisted the USA in going after them, unless I'm missing something.

(I am open to missing something here)

Re: How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way

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Post by lmm »

subroutine wrote: post #37
calvinmorrison wrote: post #13

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Top secret stazi lists should absolutely be shared. It's why we have 'we have right to know' laws, so the government can't just lock people up in a jail and disappear them.

If someone was on a no fly list and they wanted the general public to know, they could just put it out there themselves. No? This seems more likely to be used as a form of public shaming than a way to expose injustice.

> If someone was on a no fly list and they wanted the general public to know, they could just put it out there themselves. No?

How would they know? How would they prove it?

There's a known case a few years ago where a woman was trapped away from the US for 3 years - her estranged husband put her on the list when she went to visit her parents, and boom, she's not allowed into the US and no-one will tell her why, making it easy for him to get divorced and keep the house.

(If she'd known what had happened, and been able to put her hands on enough money, she could maybe have flown to Canada/Mexico and entered overland; all she knew was she was denied boarding)

Re: How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way

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Post by eli »

rqtwteye wrote: post #42
googlryas wrote: post #11

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I wish we just used “they” always. I am fine with people not wanting certain pronouns but I find it very tedious to track different pronouns in my head. Especially in a professional setting gender shouldn’t matter at all.

I wish everyone was just named James. I had a good friend named James and it’s much easier to call everyone that than to learn a bunch of individual names.

Re: How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way

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mananaysiempre wrote: post #32

From the accompanying (and linked) Daily Dot article[1]: > On the list were several notable figures, including the recently freed Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, alongside over 16 potential aliases for him. > [...] > Numerous names included aliases that were common misspellings or slightly altered versions of their names. For non-natively-Latin names, the US government is thorough to the point of hilarity in includi…

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Re: How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way

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Post by netsharc »

asn0 wrote: post #43
ryandrake wrote: post #14

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I wonder which no-fly list it is. Is it a government no-fly list that would contain suspected international criminals and terrorists, or an airline's private no-fly list that would contain people who cause a ruckus on flights, drunks, anti-maskers, and so on. Maybe one shared between airlines? I would imagine that second list has grown substantially since 2020 given all the craziness airlines have had to deal with si…

> the nofly csv is almost 80mb in size and contains over 1.56 million rows of data. this HAS to be the real deal (we later get confirmation that it is indeed a copy of the nofly list from 2019).

CSV you say? Let's hope Bobby Droptable's cousin Bobby Double Quote Comma-Semicolon don't get in it...

Re: How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way

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Post by recursive »

eli wrote: post #56
rqtwteye wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wish we just used “they” always. I am fine with people not wanting certain pronouns but I find it very tedious to track different pronouns in my head. Especially in a professional setting gender shouldn’t matter at all.

I wish everyone was just named James. I had a good friend named James and it’s much easier to call everyone that than to learn a bunch of individual names.

It makes sense to me that individuals should have names. Pronouns tend to be much less information dense, and are used as shorthand. It doesn't make sense to me that pronouns should capture gender, as opposed to hair color, height, or age.
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