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Nice whataboutism. Are you trying to say as long as there are worse authoritarian regimes exists critiquing the American regime is bad?
No, I'm saying that the US is not an authoritarian regime.
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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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I suspect they're talking about circumvention of technical DRM measures. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201
They could also be talking about the Apple email leak caused by incrementing an UUID. There's probably other notable cases with the same failure mode. One of the things you learn working in computer security: history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
> history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
I do like Mark Twain
Re: How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way
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Nice whataboutism. Are you trying to say as long as there are worse authoritarian regimes exists critiquing the American regime is bad?
No, I'm saying that the US is not an authoritarian regime.
Tell that to the millions imprisoned for victimless "crimes"
Re: How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way
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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.
> You was always both singular and plural
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You says the singular "you" didn't occur until Modern English, and the singular form 'ye' died out in the 1600s with early Modern English.
The King James Bible, published 1611, uses "ye" as the singular form of the formal "you", as in "Ye shall know them by their fruits."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version further notes:
] In a period of rapid linguistic change the translators avoided contemporary idioms, tending instead towards forms that were already slightly archaic, like verily and it came to pass.[87] The pronouns thou/thee and ye/you are consistently used as singular and plural respectively, even though by this time you was often found as the singular in general English usage, especially when addressing a social superior (as is evidenced, for example, in Shakespeare). ...
] Another sign of linguistic conservatism is the invariable use of -eth for the third person singular present form of the verb, as at Matthew 2:13: "the Angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dreame".
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!
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I don't disagree but...
The US might not be authoritarian overall but the people who wind up in positions of power in the various institutions that run it sure seem to have a much greater authoritarian bent than the populace in general so when they can get away with it (like when prosecuting a hacker or arresting a bootleg cigarette seller) they try to go all out. The kinds of people who routinely complain about these excesses often turn right around and complain that specific kinds of criminals they don't like aren't getting treated badly enough and it drives me up the wall.
Re: How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way
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The laws around digital access to networks are archaic and very broad, they were mostly defined in the 80s and 90s. I believe any unauthorized access (i.e. not having consent from the owner/operator) to a private network is technically a crime. Even if the Jenkins server was open, I bet finding and using the S3 credentials would have crossed the line of the law. Those S3 buckets are private and if you didn't have per…
Regards the archaic laws I'm not convinced, they tend to just parallel real world crimes. For example if you parallel it to the real world then the crime of trespass covers the Jenkins server situation (you can trespass on land that is open and easy to access) and you still commit a crime if you enter a house where you found the key on the floor outside the door, which covers the S3 situation.
Trespass doesn't get you bent over in the shower of a federal prison. CFAA violations do.
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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!
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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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Nice whataboutism. Are you trying to say as long as there are worse authoritarian regimes exists critiquing the American regime is bad?
No, I'm saying that the US is not an authoritarian regime.
The US breaks their own laws and international laws when going after individuals who embarrasses the US government, including deploying the military if it suits them.
It is a bit like when telecom companies sent bribes to terrorists in order to gain telecom contracts. It not that they intend to do bad things, but occasionally they have to break the law when law stands in the way.
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If I’m not mistaken RFC 4180 says that quotes should be escaped by prepending them with another quote, so “” and not \” (these are not double quotes but my phone won’t let me type normal quotes), but yeah I guess it is a rather perverse value to put in a csv.
Note that virtually no one implements that RFC. CSV is merely a style of file, not a true file format.
That's how Excel does it though
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Do you think the only measure of authoritarianism is number of prisoners per capita?
At any rate, I was reading that countries like China have alternatives to prison called “administrative detention”. Maybe we should just change the name of our prisons so we can goose the stats?