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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 WrtCdEvrydy »

For anyone who wants to do this easier... ZAP Proxy has a HUD display that will allow you to see the data flying on a page after you load it.

No need to do funky Inspect Element magic. Works wonders for reverse engineering how your fancy UI talks to the fancy API to do the fancy things.

If you can't figure out ZAP with HUD, you can alternatively use the Network tab on Chrome and switch to AJAX (if it's something that happens without the page loading)

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

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Post by cobookman »

ClumsyPilot wrote: post #59
rvz wrote: post #19

We blame these social networks for collecting vast amounts of our private data (yes we should), yet these folk have no problem of posting already sensitive information under a hashtag - creating an Aladdin's cave of identities waiting to be stolen for fraud as this blog-post has demonstrated. 'If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place' - Eric Schmidt…

Boarding pass clearly should not allow tgis lwvel of access to yiur personal infornatiob- it has one job, boarding a plane.

It's also used in the customs process.

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

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Post by Polylactic_acid »

coagmano wrote: post #73
sellyme wrote: post #8

The contact form on Abbott's website 403ing is impressively on-brand.

I wouldn't be surprised if the staff deliberately sabotaged it. I've worked for a party before and the emails are horrendous

There are so many website that will automate spamming every politician contact form with prewritten content about an issue so I'm surprised if those contact forms route anywhere other than /dev/null.

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

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Post by pmiller2 »

jtchang wrote: post #72
sellyme wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The top solution on this Code Golf question is possibly the most comical example of Mathematica's scope that I've ever seen: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/71631/upgoat-or...

That answer is absurd yet awe inspiring what Mathematica can do.

Yeah, TIL Mathematica knows what a goat is, and can recognize one on sight.

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

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Post by ObsoleteNerd »

jeffbee wrote: post #58

Are passport numbers secrets?

They're a form of Government-issued photo ID, so not "secret" but definitely "sensitive".

At least in Australia, a passport can be used as your primary ID for a lot of stuff such as renting houses, buying mobile phones, connecting services to your home, booking flights, renting cars, etc etc etc.

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

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Post by ibudiallo »

The power of Inspect Element. This is exactly how I found out I was underpaid[1]. A company I worked for used a software called erecruit to manage my contracts. When you click on a clients name, it makes an ajax request to fetch the data. Being a web developer, I inspected the data returned.

I'm pretty sure all the developer did was:

    echo json_encode($queryResult);
I saw how much I was getting paid vs how much they were charging clients. I quickly changed my prices after that.

[1]: https://idiallo.com/blog/how-much-do-you-charge-for-your-wor...

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