Finding a former Australian prime minister’s passport number on Instagram (2020)
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#42> 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.
Re: Finding a former Australian prime minister’s passport number on Instagram (2020)
#43It'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…
Or hackers going into politics like Beto O'Rourke [0] aka Psychedelic Warlord, (former?) member of Cult of the Dead Cow [1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beto_O%27Rourke [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_the_Dead_Cow