How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way • Hacker News Board

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 cduzz » Fri, Jan 20, 2023, 2:18 PM UTC

jcq3 wrote: post #449

implements wrote: post #430

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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

Don't forget the time machine to go back to warn past self about the one time they slip up just prior to when they decide to really go all in on the haxoring.

Some parts of the internet never forget, and the anonymous graph is only anonymous if all of it is anonymous. 99.999% isn't good enough.

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 cduzz » Fri, Jan 20, 2023, 2:24 PM UTC

pdpi wrote: post #414

wrldos wrote: post #390

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Mine is principal dung roller.

I’ve long described myself as half janitor, half firefighter.

Data Plumber.

Some planning, some building out new stuff (usually clean work), some repairing active geysers of partially processed data that's getting all over the place fouling up the works.

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 staringback » Fri, Jan 20, 2023, 2:25 PM UTC

akimball wrote: post #473

kleiba wrote: post #471

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No, I'm saying that the US is not an authoritarian regime.

Tell that to the millions imprisoned for victimless "crimes"

The crimes that were written into law by democratically elected representatives?

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 plusminusplus » Fri, Jan 20, 2023, 2:40 PM UTC

upsidesinclude wrote: post #305

plusminusplus wrote: post #268

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"the suspect jumped in their car and fled the scene" In English the word can be used as a singular pronoun

John jumped in their car... Right, so if you change it, then it's changed and it's different. Appreciate the clarification

Yes, I suppose changing things changes them. Appreciate the redundancy.

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 kab0b » Fri, Jan 20, 2023, 2:41 PM UTC

as_bntd wrote: post #177

I expected to read an article about actually owning an airline in 3 easy steps. :(

I imagine it's something like Richard Bransons How to become a millionaire:

1) Be a billionaire

2) Start an Airline

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 shadowgovt » Fri, Jan 20, 2023, 2:53 PM UTC

vanderZwan wrote: post #447

veltas wrote: post #392

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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.

In my case, it was using Linux distros pre-vscode that got me into emacs. In that era, your choices for general-purpose developer-oriented file editor were (a) emacs, (b) vim, (c) something that was ported from another OS and either running in an emulator or running atop a library stack that barely worked on your architecture and would take like thirty seconds to boot up.

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 ossner » Fri, Jan 20, 2023, 3:04 PM UTC

dekken_ wrote: post #439

komali2 wrote: post #394

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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

Perhaps in reference to the judyrecords fiasco:

https://www.judyrecords.com/what-happened-with-tyler-technol...

No one was actually sent to jail, but the proprietor of the site was dragged through the media as a dangerous hacker and felon.

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 LastTrain » Fri, Jan 20, 2023, 3:07 PM UTC

kuschku wrote: post #364

LastTrain wrote: post #108

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She goes by it, so go look in the mirror. We're all trying our best here.

Maia uses both she and it pronouns. The poster before me misgendered it though, which absolutely isn't okay.

I try and use a person's preferred pronoun. Sometimes I fail, and that absolutely OK.

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 washadjeffmad » Fri, Jan 20, 2023, 3:10 PM UTC

staringback wrote: post #513

akimball wrote: post #473

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Tell that to the millions imprisoned for victimless "crimes"

The crimes that were written into law by democratically elected representatives?

Are they though? Bernie Sanders wasn't even allowed to debate as a popular presidential candidate because he didn't have a corporate sponsor or Super PAC funding.

If voters are only choosing amongst candidates put forth by the establishment, and the establishment relies on funding and support from special interests, then democratically elected is somewhat different than democratically selected, isn't it?

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 shadowgovt » Fri, Jan 20, 2023, 3:12 PM UTC

thrtythreeforty wrote: post #2

Headline buries the real lede a bit in my opinion; the author has gotten a snapshot of the no-fly list from 2019. Presumably the system under attack processes more up-to-date versions of it regularly. Corresponding news story: https://www.dailydot.com/debug/no-fly-list-us-tsa-unprotecte...

And as always... Never use production data in the test pipeline.

At the very least, I don't think the company was operating like every random developer should have full-access to the no-fly list, which is what they de-facto gave them when they dumped an old copy into the test pipeline.