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When you browse Instagram and find Tony Abbott's passport number

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Re: When you browse Instagram and find Tony Abbott's passport number

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Post by hdi8534 »

vishnugupta wrote: post #104

I accidentally discovered a way to get hold of passport details of random people by applying for Visa on arrival to Vietnam. There are these online portals which do some document pre processing which is legit. And on landing in Vietnam we are expected to show that we have already applied for Visa. It so happens that these portals do batch processing. Which means my application is processed along with a half a dozen o…

The same when you apply to give up vietnamese citizenship, all your info are public on the goverment website (pdf files with name, birthday, current addresss...)

Re: When you browse Instagram and find Tony Abbott's passport number

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Post by spyke112 »

gouggoug wrote: post #93

Out of curiosity a few months back I spent a few hours looking at this exact hashtag (#boardingpass) and other travel related hashtags. I ended up thinking that Instagram was actively removing pictures of boarding passes because I could only find a surprisingly low amount of pictures containing valid Lastname/BookingRef. As for the few pictures available, the references were often either too old, or partially covered…

I even get a 501 Not Implemented for https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/boardingpass/ on desktop. May be related?

Re: When you browse Instagram and find Tony Abbott's passport number

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Post by qdiencdxqd »

chris_wot wrote: post #27
aahortwwy wrote: post #6

> “You could drop me in the bush and I’d feel perfectly confident navigating my way out, looking at the sun and direction of rivers and figuring out where to go, but this! Hah!” I mean not to call him out but this did happen and he didn't navigate his way out (although that says nothing about his confidence). https://www.smh.com.au/national/tony-abbott-lost-in-the-outb... EDIT: To be fair, it's been a decade. Maybe h…

Sure, this is the guy who knighted a prince and ate a raw onion. What did you expect? Abbott was Australia's Trump. Thankfully he lasted in office an even shorter time than the people he replaced.

He was a Rhodes Scholar, so he's probably pretty smart.

Re: When you browse Instagram and find Tony Abbott's passport number

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Post by brobdingnagians »

sellyme wrote: post #66
mroche wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> is one of the most HN comments I've come across recently :) That gave me a laugh. I don't have any experience with Mathematica, but everytime I see it mentioned (usually on HN) I'm amazed at the sheer breadth the system is capable of. The amount of use cases and possibilities blows my mind.

The top solution on this Code Golf question is possibly the most comical example of Mathematica's scope that I've ever seen: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/71631/upgoat-or...

The other answers are also very clever and interesting. There are quite a few ways to determine whether the goat is up or down, and some are very simple.

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Post by bjornorn »

kccqzy wrote: post #26

Nice. Here's a similar personal story with a PSA that sometimes blurring is NOT sufficient. A friend of mine posted on Instagram a picture of a U.S. visa (or something similar; it was probably five years ago) to announce her trip to the U.S., and she took care to blur out sensitive information such as her passport number. But a Gaussian blur is easy to reverse and I successfully unblurred it and told her my discovery…

Did the blog author actually un-blur the booking reference though? He states he tried to un-blur the barcode, was unsuccessful and then realized the booking reference was right there in the picture. Nothing about un-blurring it.

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Post by gropius »

zwayhowder wrote: post #130
function_seven wrote: post #37

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Your advice is good, and I agree that you didn't use specialized software to reverse the blur, but this > I didn't use any specialized software; it was just Mathematica with its built-in ImageDeconvolve function with guessed parameters for the Gaussian kernel. is one of the most HN comments I've come across recently :)

Reminds me of the Simpson's 3D episode. Professor Frink's >"Well, it should be obvious to even the most dimwitted individual, who holds an advanced degree in hyperbolic topology..."

Professor Frink, Professor Frink. He'll make you laugh, he'll make you think. He likes to run and then the thing with the.. person...
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