I 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.
Yeah, it was a bit yikes.
When you browse Instagram and find Tony Abbott's passport number
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#22The tl;dr:
> Your boarding pass for a flight can sometimes be used to get your passport number. Don’t post your boarding pass or baggage receipt online, keep it as secret as your passport.
> How it works: The Booking Reference on the boarding pass can be used to log in to the airline’s “Manage Booking” page, which sometimes contains the passport number, depending on the airline. I saw that Tony Abbott had posted a photo of his boarding pass on Instagram, and used it to get his passport details, phone number, and internal messages between Qantas flight staff about his flight booking.
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#23This was a great read! Highly recommended.
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#24I 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.
Yeah I thought the person to be quite young. But I understood, as I've been that young and written in almost exactly that writing style before. :) I skimmed through it feeling fondness for my youth.
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#25We 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…
The problem is people have no idea what is sensitive. Until just now I would have thought a boarding pass was safe to share.
Its more the airlines fault for making this info so easy to access with what looks like unsensitive info.
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#26Nice. 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. I didn't use any specialized software; it was just Mathematica with its built-in ImageDeconvolve function with guessed parameters for the Gaussian kernel.
I personally recommend blacking out (add a black rectangle) instead of blurring, and if it is a PDF, convert to an image afterwards because too many PDF editors use non-destructive operations to add a new object instead of changing what's underneath.
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#27> “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.
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#28I loved the writing style. That "hard mode" effect had me wheezing though.
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#29Apart 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!
This was really a delight to read. I wonder if the author was raised on 2600. Fantastic stuff.
Also visited his page. Does not disappoint: https://mango.pdf.zone/
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#30Interestingly (and strangely) some frequent flyer numbers are treated by Australian airlines as confidential information.