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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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Post by Dylan16807 »

Someone wrote: post #460
Dylan16807 wrote: post #393

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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.

It’s valid to argue that, but that means you can’t use CSV for many real-world data sets. That, in turn, means you almost cannot use CSV in any robust solution. Even if, today, your input doesn’t have commas, quotes or newlines, can you guarantee it won’t tomorrow, next year, etc?

> Even if, today, your input doesn’t have commas, quotes or newlines, can you guarantee it won’t tomorrow, next year, etc?

But... but those are the ones I listed as real special characters, unlike backslash. I don't understand the question.

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 subroutine »

gggggg5 wrote: post #582
subroutine wrote: post #568

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Why do you think they put people on the no fly list?

It's very well documented, no point in speculating. https://www.tsa.gov/travel/passenger-support/travel-redress-... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Fly_List

> The No Fly List is a small subset of the U.S. government Terrorist Screening Database (also known as the terrorist watchlist) that contains the identity information of known or suspected terrorists.

The TSA comment above is pretty straight forward but to be fair the wiki article is filled with instances of speculation.

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 lamontcg »

TheDong wrote: post #355
lamontcg wrote: post #308

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You have an incredibly naive understanding of the propensity for people to divulge secrets. "Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead"

We're talking about a no fly list which every airline in the world has a copy of. There's at the very least hundreds, if not 10s of thousands, of employees of airlines alone that have access to this list. If people had such an innate propensity to divulge secrets, surely the employees who setup that faulty jenkins server would have already sent you a copy of the no fly list, right?

And I would agree that it has been leaked, probably a lot, and that any halfway competent government intelligence agency in the world has copies if they feel they need them.

That isn't really a counter-example to my point which is just that it is stupidly naive to suggest that Maia is somehow exempt from these concerns.

If you want to argue that its all pointless secrecy theater, then I'd agree with that entirely.

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 lamontcg »

komali2 wrote: post #403
lamontcg wrote: post #118

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> Maia didn't share the data at all You literally immediately falsified that assertion: > and only offers to if someone can demonstrate they will use it responsibly. And nobody ever lies of course.

This is why such a list should be public. You don't trust random grey hat hacker at .gay TLD to distribute the list to people who won't do harm with it. I don't trust the government to not distribute it, accidentally or otherwise, to people who want to do harm with it. In fact, the government does do harm with it, by putting people on it without telling them (they might send a letter, that's not guaranteed), and you…

Sure. But that isn't the naive position that just because someone is Good(tm) that they will be careful with secrets. That's just the position that keeping secrets and having Kafkaesque bullshit is itself bad, so it doesn't matter, and the right thing to do is just post it on a pastebin hosted in Russia and call it a day.

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 howinteresting »

wpietri wrote: post #157
howinteresting wrote: post #149

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Going back to your original post: >Anyone who doesn't have the capacity to accept being called any pronoun has a mental health problem. By this metric the vast majority of humanity has a mental health problem, and you're an exception. Most cis, het men do not like to be called she or a girl.

Yeah, that's pretty special. Personally as a cis nerd, I find the neurotypical obsession with gender roles pretty weird. I think we would be healthier if there were less of it, and like that we seem to be heading that way. But I don't think that makes everybody mentally ill.

Worth drawing a distinction between gender roles, which are mostly "socially constructed", and gender identity, which is someone's inherent sense of their gender (with a strong biological component).

Gender identity is an essential part of what makes us human. Some people have a stronger sense of it than others. To the extent that mental illness describes an actual objective thing, having a gender identity does not make someone mentally ill, because it doesn't by itself disrupt one's healthy functioning in society. It is when that gender identity is invalidated by others that it can affect people's mental health (just like calling someone a slur or insulting them can affect their mental health). It is still not an illness, 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 by notch656c »

ThrowawayTestr wrote: post #573
Scoundreller wrote: post #534

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Depends on the country. Mine was founded by some overseas family that can still come over and start telling us what to do as they please. So uhhh, yeah, can confirm, Canada’s laws basically revolve around keeping old money wealthy without providing any value to anyone.

The British Crown hasn't had real power since 1649, but please continue complaining about nothing.

No you just (by constitution) have to swear allegiance to the crown to become a lawmaker, which makes you a perjurer if you don't acknowledge their power.

Also is the monarch not commander in chief their armed forces? I thought being under the command of the queen / monarch was part of their oath. If your soldiers are sworn to do what the queen says that seems like a lot of potential power.

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 silexia »

xyst wrote: post #521
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…

Laws are written to protect multibillion corporations and billionaires. Prove me wrong. If we truly lived in a sane society, companies with lax security and god awful security policies would be punished.

Yes, punish the victims is the best policy.

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Post by mrguyorama »

some_furry wrote: post #456
danuker wrote: post #445

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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.

Nah history in information security repeats daily. How many unsecured mongodb databases exposed to the internet and unsecured S3 buckets did we see? Credentials have been committed to github so often that Github chose to build an automated alert system on their own dime that you don't even have to sign up for. How many times have lastpass and Experian been breached? How often do we STILL see sql injection attacks, a problem that has been actually solved for decades?

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 notch656c »

ceejayoz wrote: post #523
Psychoshy_bc1q wrote: post #399

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who cares?

Someone who continues to deliberately misgender after being told about it - especially using "he" when the person's name (Maia) is traditionally a woman's name - seems to care quite a bit.

If you use binary genders you use male or female ones and people tend to use the same pronouns once they start with them. If someone uses gendered pronouns you shouldn't take that to mean that's the one the subject prefers but rather that's the gender the person who wrote it perceived.

If they truly don't care to perceive a gender then a 50 / 50 pick. When I look at it's picture I honestly couldn't tell you if I perceive more male or female so I would've done same as op and picked one randomly and then for consistency not change it, even if some unrelated party tried to confuse things by making me change 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 mrguyorama »

tsimionescu wrote: post #378
gambiting wrote: post #370

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Well, thank you for explaining. I have complete respect for anyone's choices in this area but I'll leave the opinion on this particular choice to myself. Edit: looking at other comments, it seems like it might not be the correct explanation after all?

As someone else noted, GP is just misunderstanding a frankly confusing subject. There are essentially two common ways for people to specify their pronouns. Some people desire a single set of pronouns, and indicate this using the nominative/accusative pair (she/her, they/them, ze/zer). Other people accept either of two different sets of pronouns, and indicate this preference using the two nominative forms separated by…

We should introduce that community to the Pipe character so they can disambiguate between the two forms.
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