clickbait. no "passport" is found. very long winded insufferable hooting about finding the passport number from an instagrammed boarding pass booking number. is that still a big security hole? i guess. could have been one tweet though
When you browse Instagram and find Tony Abbott's passport number
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#12I don’t know if it’s just me or it’s the fact that I’m reading this on mobile on a small screen but I couldn’t stand the writing style. Curious to know if anyone else felt that way.
I agree, kind of. I had to skim it, some of the jokes were funny, it just took up too much space.
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#13clickbait. no "passport" is found. very long winded insufferable hooting about finding the passport number from an instagrammed boarding pass booking number. is that still a big security hole? i guess. could have been one tweet though
I found the writing style to be very entertaining. Maybe someone else would've stopped at a tweet but in the end he managed get on the phone with Tony Abbott himself and got himself a cool story to tell.
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#14I don’t know if it’s just me or it’s the fact that I’m reading this on mobile on a small screen but I couldn’t stand the writing style. Curious to know if anyone else felt that way.
The writing style was irreverent, colloquial, and replete with cultural references, but also dense with information. I felt a constant tension of wanting to skim-read and actually parsing the content, but found it really entertaining all the while.
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#15I don’t know if it’s just me or it’s the fact that I’m reading this on mobile on a small screen but I couldn’t stand the writing style. Curious to know if anyone else felt that way.
It reads like a travel diary. Which I really like because you get the things that are done and the thoughts and feelings along the way.
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#16I don’t know if it’s just me or it’s the fact that I’m reading this on mobile on a small screen but I couldn’t stand the writing style. Curious to know if anyone else felt that way.
I loved it, it helped me keep reading the whole way through an extremely long, yet engaging article. Different people like different writing styles and humour obviously.
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#17clickbait. no "passport" is found. very long winded insufferable hooting about finding the passport number from an instagrammed boarding pass booking number. is that still a big security hole? i guess. could have been one tweet though
When a (former) head of Government is calling your personal phone number I think you're entitled to want more than 280 characters to tell the story of how the hell that happened.
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#18clickbait. no "passport" is found. very long winded insufferable hooting about finding the passport number from an instagrammed boarding pass booking number. is that still a big security hole? i guess. could have been one tweet though
> very long winded insufferable hooting about finding the passport number
Did you read the whole thing? Also included were phone number, notes from airline staff.
> is that still a big security hole?
To quote the article:
> Just having the information on the passport is not quite as powerful as a photo of the full physical passport, with your photo and everything.
> With your passport number, someone could: > - Book an international flight as you > - Apply for anything that requires proof of identity documentation with the government, e.g. Working with children check > - Activate a SIM card (and so get an internet connection that’s traceable to you, not them, hiding them from the government)
.. and then it had a couple more points.
> could have been one tweet though
And then you'd miss the whole story about informing government security and Qantas of the flaws (difficult apparently), tracking down the staff of the ex-Prime Minister of Australia, and then finally getting a call from the man himself. Might not be your cup of tea, but not 'click-bait'. The author put a lot of effort, and told a really interesting story.
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#19We blame these social networks for collecting vast amounts of our private data (yes we should), yet these folk have no problem of posting already sensitive information under a hashtag - creating an Aladdin's cave of identities waiting to be stolen for fraud as this blog-post has demonstrated.
'If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place' - Eric Schmidt
I guess they will learn the hard way given that they aren't really 'tech savvy' or internet wise these days.
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#20Apart from the really interesting content, this is an extremely good read, strikes me as the right kind of balance of information and keeping you entertained. I really enjoyed this writing style!