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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 teaearlgraycold »

novok wrote: post #158
twunde wrote: post #40

Relatively off-topic, but I absolutely love the 90s/early 2000s vibes I get from this. I can't remember the last time I saw a webring, much less one with animated logos.

It's even more entertaining when the people who make it weren't even alive or old enough to understand or have memory of it. It's a bit of a trip for me. Made me realize that 'vintage' basically means to many people 'things that are before my living memory' and it can literally only be 0 to 5 years back before they were born.

Anything post WW2 and pre 1995 feels pretty much the same to me.

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 irjustin »

vunicipna wrote: post #162
Rhinozz wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>>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…

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> down to other more selfish reasons, e.g. Edward Snowden's mass theft and leaking of NSA secrets.

What was Snowden's selfish reasons?

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 zeveb »

culi wrote: post #106

> Suspected members of the IRA, the Irish paramilitary organization, were also on the list. Oof the international politics always come out in things like this. Twitter also publicizes all of its suspensions and bans. There's a Wikipedia article with a list of all the notable suspensions since 2010. It's interesting to see that, contrary to popular narratives, many of the international groups banned were actually far-…

> The last notable ban was Paul Graham for simply sharing their Mastodon handle.

Paul Graham is a man, not a plural entity.

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 lom »

vunicipna wrote: post #148

Interesting hack, but this seems quite the brazen confession to a fair number of computer crimes. If I were the author, I'd be worried about getting arrested and potentially extradited for this. Especially as he deliberately downloaded a load of confidential information after gaining access, and then shared it around. He'd be looking at years in prison for this, in the US.

The author is already searched by US authorities for other hacks. See their wiki page here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maia_arson_crimew#Indictment

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 megabless123 »

tekla wrote: post #172
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).

Bullshit. Why is a word that explicitly removes all identity connotations randomly dehumanization? Its one of the most neutral ways of indicating another, In the same way that "comrade" is.

bc folks on the right will weaponize `it` to remove a person's humanity

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 dmix »

culi wrote: post #106

> Suspected members of the IRA, the Irish paramilitary organization, were also on the list. Oof the international politics always come out in things like this. Twitter also publicizes all of its suspensions and bans. There's a Wikipedia article with a list of all the notable suspensions since 2010. It's interesting to see that, contrary to popular narratives, many of the international groups banned were actually far-…

> It's interesting to see that, contrary to popular narratives, many of the international groups banned were actually far-left aligned.

The list that Wikipedia determines "notable suspensions" is probably not the best gauge to counter "popular narratives". What Wikipedia chooses to highlight is often the sum of actual popular narratives - not simply popular protests [1]- which is sourced almost entirely from the media and then filtered through the culture found among Wikipedia power users.

A raw database of suspensions and their rationale [2] would probably be the only useful analysis.

[1] The people most often protesting bans aren't always the people getting the most media-sourceable attention for their bans

[2] Recent leaks show that that the US state/federal gov employees (and other well connected power players) often sent lists of tens/hundreds of accounts to be banned and Twitter employees often retroactively found reasons to do so when the given reason wasn't justified. So both the rationale and "notable" part both have questionable value for general analysis

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 toss1 »

kuschku wrote: post #50
toss1 wrote: post #22

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>>demonstrate they will use it responsibly. The problem is to define "demonstrate" and the criteria. Remember the gatekeeper is now an unemployed gal who "know lot's of things about cyber security" according to her main page. Seems likely a competent bad actor could easily impersonate a well-meaning reporter... Yes, security through obscurity isn't security, but this also seems incredibly irresponsible for any "secur…

Please give maia the respect she deserves and use the correct pronouns.

after your comment, I looked at her main page more closely and found that she mentioned "it/she" in a superscript the middle of a paragraph, so that's what I corrected it to.

I do have to say that, while it's polite to use people's preferences, when just reading an article and posting a quick comment, it's pretty casual, and (almost always) no offense is meant, so none should be taken. Note that the bulk of the comments here are all over the map, and I'm sure no one means to be offensive.

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Post by refulgentis »

Pixeleen wrote: post #112
_yb2s wrote: post #9

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Am I missing something? It seems Maia didn't share the data at all, and only offers to if someone can demonstrate they will use it responsibly. Moreover, depending on the contents of the list, this likely offers proof of what is generally suspected, that the no fly list is a form of discrimination and authoritarian overreach, targeting people that haven't been convicted of a crime but are "suspected" due to race, rel…

I get the impression that she's/it's doing this from a place of pain and desire to lash out, and "the system" is an easy target for her to fix onto. Not out of any sense of morality.

That's an odd take but I'm getting old. Once you cross 30 its incredibly to spot when someone is an NPC laundering hate in the guise of reading minds. They're clearly young or angry, so you let it go.

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 toss1 »

irjustin wrote: post #182
vunicipna wrote: post #162

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> down to other more selfish reasons, e.g. Edward Snowden's mass theft and leaking of NSA secrets. What was Snowden's selfish reasons?

Snowden was a compromised asset of Russia, working for them. Most of what he released had nothing to do with his stated purpose. People have all kinds of reasons for doing that sort of thing. Sometimes they really believe in the other country, sometimes it's entirely selfish. We won't know even if he says something on the topic, since we can never know his mind, and he'd demonstrated that he's dishonest.
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