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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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Previous Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24488224 The blogpost itself is a really entertaining read.

> The blogpost itself is a really entertaining read.

It could do without all the cringe, the irony of writing a "I'm so zany and wacky guys, you don't even know how wacky I am" blog post and calling other people cringe is next level.

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

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Pretty fun read. PNR / reservation / confirmation numbers are a pretty interesting method for allowing quick changes. Obviously sharing them is ill-advised. However, how is the general, non-technical layperson supposed to know any better?

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

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Pretty fun read. PNR / reservation / confirmation numbers are a pretty interesting method for allowing quick changes. Obviously sharing them is ill-advised. However, how is the general, non-technical layperson supposed to know any better?

Print right at the top in bold: Confidential information please do not share for privacy reasons.

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

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Pretty fun read. PNR / reservation / confirmation numbers are a pretty interesting method for allowing quick changes. Obviously sharing them is ill-advised. However, how is the general, non-technical layperson supposed to know any better?

Stop posting pictures to social networking. Seems easy.

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

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That's a lot of words to say that someone posted their booking details online so you could log in and see their phone number.

I'm pretty sure that a half-page executive summary would convey the information, but I still enjoy the post. It's not a CVE report, it's a personal account of someone who has done something that happens to involve a former PM. I'm sure that not everyone would like how it's written (some don't like this stlye of humour and everyone has a story out there that they wouldn't read again), but I personally don't mind it.
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