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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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Post by becquerel »

ripdog wrote: post #217
CSSer wrote: post #209

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I wonder what the motivation was. Anarchism is mentioned elsewhere, so if I wonder if that’s a motivating factor here. At any rate, I appreciate that people are trying their best to be respectful. Personally, I’d also prefer to use “she” if that’s alright with her (it?). This becomes confusing quickly when we’re also trying to use it abstractly to refer to arguments and concepts.

I totally understand wanting to be respectful, but respect goes both ways. She needs to respect the fact that her odd pronouns are literally breaking the English language for people who want to use them.

You can't 'break' a language. You either just follow its rules or flaunt them. If your output is still comprehensible - which 'it' as a pronoun is - it's still language. Back in the day English used to have two pronouns for 'you'. Was merging them both into one pronoun also literally breaking the language?

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Post by veltas »

japanman425 wrote: post #389
KyeRussell wrote: post #380

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In reality it’s like a kid listening to the beatles, but with computers. I’m a younger millennial that grew up entrenched in ‘hacker culture’ and even then there was a clear fetishisation of the good ol’ days.

Like people using eMacs or vim these days

Not to start a flame war, but no, people use vim and Emacs because they're productive with them. I've certainly tried alternatives like vscode seriously and find I prefer vim.

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Post by Dylan16807 »

Someone wrote: post #382
Dylan16807 wrote: post #228

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Isn't that your parser's problem? I don't think true CSV has any special characters other than comma, quote, and CRLF.

There is no “true CSV”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values : “The CSV file format is not fully standardized. Separating fields with commas is the foundation, but commas in the data or embedded line breaks have to be handled specially. Some implementations disallow such content while others surround the field with quotation marks, which yet again creates the need for escaping if quotation marks are p…

I think it's valid to argue that you shouldn't be able to put some of commas, quotes, and newlines inside fields at all. And comma versus semicolon.

But that doesn't extend to using backslash escapes in something that's legitimately trying to be CSV. That's someone getting confused and implementing a mix of data formats, or trying to be clever and making an extended CSV format.

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Post by komali2 »

japanman425 wrote: post #386
mkl95 wrote: post #318

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…

What a Wally. What purpose did it serve doing this?

Are you asking, what purpose was there in bringing the hammer of the American Justice Department and down onto a random grey hat hacker? The same as always: enforce rigid authoritarianism and blind bureaucratic SOP.

Remember kids, clicking the "next page" button on court document websites is legal, doing it with javascript is a felony, off to jail with you, join the rapists and murderers!

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Post by autoexec »

logifail wrote: post #383
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?

> downloading the no fly list and offering to share (This is a genuine question) but where's the actual value in having this list? I'm afraid I regard it as yet another piece of security theatre. Full disclosure: my passport always fails to scan at the UK Border automated gates. I had a discussion this week with yet another border agent after getting another "seek assistance" message and having to queue for a manual…

We can be pretty sure it's not to protect anyone. Anybody too dangerous to allow on an airplane should probably be behind bars. What it does accomplish is letting the government punish people without justification let alone a trial and with pretty much no transparency or consequences when innocent people end up being hurt by it. I imagine that's a power which is hard to surrender, and 'we the people' haven't exactly been insisting that they give it up either.

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Post by concordDance »

neilk wrote: post #273
shadowgovt wrote: post #265

Apropos of nothing, I also just really appreciate crimew.gay's aesthetic. This website is what me from 1993 thought a hacker's website would look like. A nod of respect to them for kickin' it old-school.

And they were born in 1999. We are dealing with a unique mind here.

Amusingly, "they" is not one of the pronouns it prefers.

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Post by komali2 »

RHSeeger wrote: post #320
karmaMeansCool wrote: post #289

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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.

In the absolutely fantastic novel Too Like Lightning there was a character that is famous for the life-like dolls made of it. Eventually it comes to term with the fact that its preferred identifier is "it" because it feels more comfortable being referred to as a doll, or inhuman, i.e. literally objectified, than it does with being considered traditionally human.

I also feel uncomfortable using "it" as a pronoun, luckily this person seems comfortable with "she/her" as well so we can just use those instead.

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Post by sverhagen »

gggggg5 wrote: post #356
tastysandwich wrote: post #200

As a software engineer even I sometimes can't help romanticising hacking in my imagination. But so many times it turns out to be just like some company left the front gate wide open and the "hacker" walked in and took a look around. Eg when an airline had a public API where you could get someone's passport number and details just from their boarding pass https://mango.pdf.zone/finding-former-australian-prime-minis...

Since when are passport numbers supposed to be sensitive information? This isn't something you could use for identity fraud in any normal circumstances.

Don't all sorts of person-related details come in handy to stage a social engineering hack? Maybe a caller could demonstrate legitimacy by coughing up a passport number. At this point, it may impress me more than someone having found my SSN (_love you for that, Equifax_). Yet, SSN is still by many institutions considered something that should be stored in the vault.

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Post by Psychoshy_bc1q »

zxexz wrote: post #260
vunicipna wrote: post #166

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Reading that wiki page, it sounds like he's on his way to a long stint in prison, or worse. Wouldn't be surprised if he gets black-bagged now that he's attacking critical national infrastructure and encouraging others to do so.

Why do you keep saying "he"? It's pretty easy to respect people's pronouns...

who cares?

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Post by komali2 »

shadowgovt wrote: post #265

Apropos of nothing, I also just really appreciate crimew.gay's aesthetic. This website is what me from 1993 thought a hacker's website would look like. A nod of respect to them for kickin' it old-school.

I love the .gay TLD! Had no idea it existed and now I want to register some domains against it
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