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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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1.5 million rows you say? Better hope nobody opens it in Excel and overwrites it…

Hopefully the first column isn't ID either[1] [1]: https://alunr.com/excel-csv-import-returns-an-sylk-file-form...

OpenOffice can’t print on Tuesdays https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/255161...

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

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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.

Have you considered that someone who chooses "it/its" as its pronouns is intentionally trying to break the English language with said choice? In this case, it is Swiss, and therefore it is likely not a native English speaker which could be a factor as well.

German has similar singular pronouns to English, with "he", "she" and it corresponding directly to "er", "sie" und "es".

(Not trying to make any point here, just thought it might be useful for context.)

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

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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…

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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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it isn't a guy and it uses it/its pronouns.

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 :-/

I think a similar case would be if someone black asked you to call them an n word. They may be comfortable with that, but I am afraid others probably won't.

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

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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...

Check this out if you haven't heard of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet

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

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> with pretty much no skill required Seriously? I know like none of the tools or terms they used, like wtf is shodan? In general the author doesn't seem to follow the white hat guidelines, and I'd be worried what they've done is quite illegal (possibly on a federal level if the nofly list is so secret)

I know those tools and i agree. There's no skill required to use a search engine for compromised/misconducted servers to find a compromised/misconfigured server and then pile around on it. I don't think it's so good to publish it instead of reporting to the airline but I'm pretty sure that is for political reasons considering the author's political views.

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

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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 Swiss and the US already tried to extradite her for posting stuff on git.rip

it ran git.rip

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

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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…

How such supposedly talented hacker end up to be doxxed? It's not that hard to become 99.99% anonymous online...

Technically easy, operationally virtually impossible - everyone will slip up eventually.

Also, the need for recognition often drives any human endeavour - and that leads hackers, criminals, etc to boast of their exploits to at least someone … who might be under observation, or under pressure to give up information to escape severe punishment for their own activities.

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