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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 robjan »

fphhotchips wrote: post #38

I feel like this buries the lede massively: Qantas' system was run by Amadeus, who also run the booking system for some 200 other airlines [0]. If you could do this with Qantas and get all those notes, you could probably do it to any other airline and get them too. That would be bad enough, but it also appears that this issue (or one very much like it) has been reported widely at least back in early 2019. So, either…

The issue isn't Amadeus, it's that some airlines don't bother to use accounts with lower levels of privileges for operations which don't need full access. There are a number of different levels which are intended to be used for different purposes: for example, the credit card numbers are not visible to booking agents but can be accessed by the anti fraud department.

Some airlines just use a single "god mode" account for their whole e-commerce platform because it's cheaper / more convenient for their developers / vendors.

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

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Post by dayjobpork »

It's nice to live in a country where not only do various parts of the government actively try to help someone with a really bizarre issue, but no one got arrested (or shot) for bullshit trumped-up hacking charges. I can't think of many other countries responding well to 'hi I'm some random person and I used the PM's boarding pass and found out all this secret stuff'

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Post by fireattack »

Nextgrid wrote: post #4

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.

I hate it. But I knew I'm never a fan of this kind of overly joking style (the same reason I can't stand famous YouTube Channel "half as interesting", despite I love his main channel.)

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

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Post by eskaytwo »

bmarquez wrote: post #31
chris_wot wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I don't get it, is there something noteworthy about eating a raw onion?

The context: he was on a PR tour of a farm (or factory or something), and grabbed it from a pile and just started eating it like it was an apple, whilst continuing the tour. It caught the public attention at how normal he made eating a raw onion look.

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

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Post by akent »

bmarquez wrote: post #31
chris_wot wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I don't get it, is there something noteworthy about eating a raw onion?

He ate it with the skin on, too.

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

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Post by akent »

carrolldunham wrote: post #11

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

Let us know when you do something even half as impressive.
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