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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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> 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.

Since then, UK has claimed the global lead on this. Sorry Oz.

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

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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…

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

Wow. I had no idea!
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