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Accessing Max Verstappen's passport and PII through FIA bugs

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Re: Accessing Max Verstappen's passport and PII through FIA bugs

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

i respectfully disagree with this sentiment. i think that in general, reinventing the wheel can be a great learning opportunity in understanding how the wheel works.

Reinventing the wheel for Formula 1 driving…

Depending on the wheel, maybe. Nowadays it's more standardized - same rims for example. The tires are standardized.

There's a lot less freedom in reinventing the wheel in formula 1 nowadays

https://www.formula1-dictionary.net/wheels.html

The steering wheel of course isn't even a wheel anymore, for a long time. It's some video game console / airplane cockpit looking monstrosity.

Re: Accessing Max Verstappen's passport and PII through FIA bugs

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Just use a framework to build your site. Don’t reinvent the wheel!

i respectfully disagree with this sentiment. i think that in general, reinventing the wheel can be a great learning opportunity in understanding how the wheel works.

I funnily just read a whole Twitter thread that had this same thesis, not 45 minutes ago... What a small world

Re: Accessing Max Verstappen's passport and PII through FIA bugs

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They may have said that process was related to GDPR, but that was either a lie or someone with so little understanding for basic laws that I wonder about their capability to conduct business at all.

Everything about this is prohibited and discouraged under GDPR.

Re: Accessing Max Verstappen's passport and PII through FIA bugs

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Archaic company has archaic security. Well done on the RD, but boy does it not surprise me one bit. Would almost be willing to bet that the hash was MD5 too.

It's an F1 racing site, their job is literally to move fast and break things. https://xkcd.com/1428/

No, this is the FIA[1], not Formula 1. They are very very different organizations.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9d%C3%A9ration_Internati... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula_One_Group

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