This is gonna be random but I love people just shamelessly being themselves on the Internet. This person is literally a kitty cat playing around and I find that adorable~
Oh, also secure your Jenkins servers.
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
#642As 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...
> 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...
Underneath all the garbage, good story. But Holy Hell, why do bloggers write so terribly and self-indulgently? That's a half hour of my life I'll never get back that shouldn't have been more than 10 minutes. Don't they have Ritalin in Australia? They really should.
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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.
vscode didn't exist when I learned vim, and Visual Studio was only on Windows, and I had seen demonstrated that people using vim seemed to be a lot faster manipulating and navigating code.
Re: How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way
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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.
The way people end up on this list is super opaque, but it's certainly not used to catch wanted criminals.
In fact, the US doesn't have super reliable systems to stop fugitives at airports except on entry.
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> If someone was on a no fly list and they wanted the general public to know, they could just put it out there themselves. No? How would they know? How would they prove it? There's a known case a few years ago where a woman was trapped away from the US for 3 years - her estranged husband put her on the list when she went to visit her parents, and boom, she's not allowed into the US and no-one will tell her why, makin…
>There's a known case a few years ago where a woman was trapped away from the US for 3 years - her estranged husband put her on the list when she went to visit her parents, and boom, she's not allowed into the US and no-one will tell her why, making it easy for him to get divorced and keep the house. How does one "put her on the list"? It's not that easy.
You can almost certainly get anyone put on this list by simply creating an email account like firstname.lastname@protonmail.com and sending out a few threatening emails to the right places.
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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 perc…
We don’t have to guess. They’re just openly transphobic. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34450709
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Re: How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way
#648Why is the no fly list sensitive information?
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This is a genuinely clever reply. I do wonder what a linguist would suggest about these two uses, though. English is a language in which context often changes outcomes.
It’s clever if you’ve never heard of context.
It's not clever if you've never heard a joke.
Re: How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way
#650This guy is a (hobbyist?) security researcher who responsibly alerts companies of vulnerabilities. However are his actions of downloading the no fly list and offering to share with journalists legal? Or does that cross into overreach and criminal activity?
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