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

Have you ever witnessed this file being used by companies moving money stored in S3 as "shitlist2019.txt" for screening incoming transactions in production? Because that's what the article is alluding to.

No, but I have seen it being ingested and turned into some horrendous XML on a weekly basis.

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

#442
post #296

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That's a problem with the English language though. There's not a singular only version of "they" and there probably should be.

The singular only version of "they" is "they", just like the singular only version of "you" is "you". "You" was formerly plural, with "thou" as singular, but "thou" has since fallen into disuse.

You was always both singular and plural, but in the singular form it was the formal second person pronoun, whereas thou was the second person singular informal pronoun; it's the same as the difference between du/Sie in German, tu/vous in French, or je/u in Dutch. This is why the King James bible uses thou: it's intended to feel more accessible to its readers with a friendly tone.

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

#443

For those unaware, maia is a pretty prolific hacktivist, and it has been indicted by a grand jury for a variety of USA govt penetrations but has USA proceedings on hold until it's extradited, which it's confident won't happen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maia_arson_crimew

so are there any repercussions for hacking US entities from switzerland ? Not that I think there ought to be.

The Swiss tend to make your life vaguely difficult by confiscating your computers every now and then at the request of the US.

You won't be extradited though.

The Swiss could maybe prosecute domestically, but its not (currently) in the public interest to do so.

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

#444

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Guys doesn't refer to men anymore, it's now a neutral word that can refer to both genders.

So how many guys have you slept with? It's not neutral but guys like to pretend it is.

It's neutral referring to groups, not individuals.

If you approach a group and say "How are you guys?" it doesn't imply an all-male group.

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

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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!

> doing it with javascript is a felony Wut

I suspect they're talking about circumvention of technical DRM measures.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201

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

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post #273

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

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

Feels like a passing of the generational torch as elsewhere in the thread there’s large arguments about pronouns while younger people who are way past that are out here getting into wide open Jenkins servers for active airlines lol

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

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post #392

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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.

Arguably you need a bit of fetishization to get started with them though.

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

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post #413

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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.

Prolly the need for recognition because if you hack from public wifi with tails tor mullvad, brand new laptop with specific hardware and so on I don't see how you can get caught up

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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What autism has to do with that?
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