[HN Gopher] U.S. 'No Fly List' Leaks After Being Left in an Unse...
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U.S. 'No Fly List' Leaks After Being Left in an Unsecured Airline
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Author : hasseo
Score : 23 points
Date : 2023-01-20 21:48 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| cf100clunk wrote:
| Huge discussion on this topic:
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| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34446673
| joshe wrote:
| A million is just so many. I expected abuses, like "tell us about
| your uncle or we'll put you on the no fly list." So something
| like 50,000 people or so.
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| It was originally marketed as people directly involved with
| terrorism. "These are people who might blow up a plane." It's so
| much vastly bigger, it has to be some dumb trolling for data.
| Like lets add all the people who went to a mosque where a bad guy
| once went.
| Scoundreller wrote:
| HN is going full circle. Instead of being a secondary news
| source, we're becoming the primary news that gets reported on.
|
| I remember when TV started reporting on what they found on the
| internet instead of the other way around.
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