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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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mrcode007 wrote: post #232
twelve40 wrote: post #207

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yeah, surprised as well. In finance, there is ofac for people forbidden from moving money, but it's also typically used as a service/db instead of passing around csv files to everyone. Very bizarre.

Not sure what service you’re referring to but the file is here: https://www.treasury.gov/ofac/downloads/sdnlist.txt

There are various aggregators who combine this list and a bunch of other sanctions/related lists like the BIS Entity List which is probably what he was referring to.

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karmaMeansCool wrote: post #289
arp242 wrote: post #225

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This is downvoted, but the homepage really does say "hello i am maia arson crimew (it/she)". I'd feel uncomfortable referring to anyone as "it" though, as there are some connotations with that :-/

It's not good that you are uncomfortable when it asks you to talk about it with its preferred pronouns. It's 2023, it's about time you try to do what it ask you to do. When it tells you its preferred pronouns, try as hard as you can to follow it.

How dare you call it not good. It did a really neat hack here.

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Post by autoexec »

vunicipna wrote: post #162
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…

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> Stealing source code and making it public isn't really helping anyone, most likely this is just an ego-inflation bragging exercise... A lot of these so-called hacktivists claim noble goals but then it later transpires to be down to other more selfish reasons,

There are a lot of ways a hacker can get attention and gain notoriety to inflate their ego. They could be causing harm to people, breaking things, causing chaos, and spreading lies. There are a lot of invisible whitehats around doing good out there. The evil stuff stands out a lot more. Responsibly reporting the data leak issue in that mental health app, and being willing to reveal the data about the no fly list to someone (if it feels they're the right someone), that all seems pretty good to me.

hacktivists are just people who try to make the world better through hacking. There's no requirement that they never do anything else for any other reason, or that they only ever hack for a really good cause, or that they never take any pleasure in the recognition they get for their actions or in what they've accomplished.

What's even the point in looking down on someone for doing good things in order to gain a positive reputation? Isn't that something we hope people will do?

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 WaxProlix »

upsidesinclude wrote: post #306
culi wrote: post #270

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It's also a very old method. In fact, he/she is a later evolution of the English language. "He/his" used to be more equivalent to "it/its". It wasn't until ~15th century that the modern "he/him" and "she/her" fully evolved. "They/them" meanwhile was in full use by the 14th century

No one speaks in middle english. Dead language rules and customs are irrelevant to modern language norms. People once walketh befide their mules, but now we gots lambos

And yet, pronoun ragers cleave to Olde Anglishe in an attempte to rectifye Ye langge. Sadge.

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Post by helsinki »

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.

She’s already potentially facing US extradition from Switzerland for unrelated computers crimes. No idea why she would publicize this exploit.

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arcastroe wrote: post #127

This guy is a (hobbyist?) security researcher who responsibly alerts companies of vulnerabilities. However are his actions of downloading the no fly list and offering to share with journalists legal? Or does that cross into overreach and criminal activity?

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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 mkl95 »

TIL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maia_arson_crimew

> In March 2021, crimew was indicted by a grand jury in the United States on criminal charges related to her alleged hacking activity between 2019 and 2021. The charges were unrelated to the hack of Verkada. Her home and her parents' home were raided by the Swiss police at the request of United States authorities, and her electronic devices were seized. People used the hashtag "#freetillie" to express support for her in the aftermath of the raid, and the Swiss magazine Republik compared her to Jeremy Hammond and Aaron Swartz.

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 RHSeeger »

karmaMeansCool wrote: post #289
arp242 wrote: post #225

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is downvoted, but the homepage really does say "hello i am maia arson crimew (it/she)". I'd feel uncomfortable referring to anyone as "it" though, as there are some connotations with that :-/

It's not good that you are uncomfortable when it asks you to talk about it with its preferred pronouns. It's 2023, it's about time you try to do what it ask you to do. When it tells you its preferred pronouns, try as hard as you can to follow it.

There's a difference, though, between

> This person is female and I'm not comfortable referring to her as 'it' because females are 'she'

and

> This person is a human being, and 'it' is used to refer to objects. It's demeaning to call a human being 'it' and makes me uncomfortable

The later is, at least imo, much more defensible.

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