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Finding a former Australian prime minister’s passport number on Instagram (2020)

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Re: Finding a former Australian prime minister’s passport number on Instagram (2020)

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Post by neom »

heywhatupboys wrote: post #19

> he since-deleted Instagram post showing the boarding pass and baggage receipt. The caption reads “coming back home from japan looking forward to seeing everyone! climate change isn’t real ok byeee” literally fake news article. what a world we are living in. The original instagram text is even visible. Author should be ashamed of himself

It's fairly obvious that he author adds elements of humor to his post that are quite easy to read through, for example...

"This was possibly the most pure and powerful Australian energy a human can possess, and explains how we elected our strongest as our leader. The raw energy did in fact travel through the phone speaker and directly into my brain, killing me instantly."

I don't think he's dead, do you?

Re: Finding a former Australian prime minister’s passport number on Instagram (2020)

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Post by 0898 »

It's interesting how Tony Abbott, the former Australian prime minister, was genuinely interested in understanding the technology behind the hack.

It reminded me of a nice anecdote from Chris Miller's book Chip War.

When former Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull was deciding whether to ban Huawei from the country's 5G network, he "bought himself a 474-page-book titled a Comprehensive Guide to 5G Security to study the topic so that he could ask better questions of his tech experts."

Nice to see politicians getting into infosec, I guess?

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Post by mfgs »

skissane wrote: post #22

> For security reasons, we try to change our Prime Minister every six months, and to never use the same Prime Minister on multiple websites. Made me laugh.

This joke’s also a reference to the fast turnover Australia had around that time of prime ministers, due to them getting replaced by their own party.

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Post by glenngillen »

runsonrum wrote: post #20
mmerlin wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Abbott the luddite, gave us copper internet and spent 400% more than promised to hobble the national broadband network purely for Murdoch's profits and favours. Abbott stopped the nationwide FttP rollout (that had just begun after years of preparing) at about 5% so his political opposition predecessors got no credit for a nation building project (and Murdoch profited maximally and his media loves Abbott and the Liber…

I believe that shame goes to Malcolm Turnbull (as Minister for Communications in Abbott Gov). A Co-worker of mine actually sent a lengthy email to him explaining the limitations and all he got back in reply was that he disagreed.

Yeah, Turnbull. Who you’d have hoped would have known better having previously been CEO of one of the country’s largest ISPs. I seem to recall a video where Mark Pesce publicly called him out on how short sighted his decision was and Turnbull just scoffed.

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Post by wasmitnetzen »

heywhatupboys wrote: post #19

> he since-deleted Instagram post showing the boarding pass and baggage receipt. The caption reads “coming back home from japan looking forward to seeing everyone! climate change isn’t real ok byeee” literally fake news article. what a world we are living in. The original instagram text is even visible. Author should be ashamed of himself

It's not fake news, it's simply a joke.

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Post by thinkingemote »

0898 wrote: post #23

It's interesting how Tony Abbott, the former Australian prime minister, was genuinely interested in understanding the technology behind the hack. It reminded me of a nice anecdote from Chris Miller's book Chip War. When former Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull was deciding whether to ban Huawei from the country's 5G network, he "bought himself a 474-page-book titled a Comprehensive Guide to 5G Security to st…

Additionally (but not the main thing here) being interested in other people and their story is also a sign of manners and charisma often found in person in the leaders and bosses of the world which many find surprising when they meet them.

Re: Finding a former Australian prime minister’s passport number on Instagram (2020)

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Post by rurban »

lhoff wrote: post #4

Previous Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24488224 The blogpost itself is a really entertaining read.

Ah, the last time it has an editorialized title. This time the correct title. Please don't change the title, or we cannot find the previous submissions.
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