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And whatever the valid reason, why isn’t it an import of some official list?
by roydivision 4y ago
And whatever the valid reason, why isn’t it an import of some official list?
- widjit 4y agoIt is an official list: a list of airports visited by OpenBSD developers. It's just a bit of culture, don't worry about it so much.
- dontbenebby 4y agoSo if you were doing a more serious program you wouldn't use this? I'm not familiar with BSD but when I was using Kali if I was using a share it was to feed into something else, classic example being wordlists fed into hydra[1] or something. [1] https://sectools.org/tool/hydra/ https://sectools.org/tool/hydra/
- Doctor_Fegg 4y agoOfficial lists are very often not permissively licensed (or openly at all).
- hoppyhoppy2 4y agoBecause that would require trusting some third party that claims (accurately? deceptively? who knows) that those airports exist. As maintainers of and contributors to a security-focused OS, OpenBSD devs want to verify the existence of each airport themselves before deciding it's fit for inclusion.
- em500 4y agoThe official list is payware: https://www.iata.org/en/publications/store/airline-coding-directory/ https://www.iata.org/en/publications/store/airline-coding-di... Alternatives are to scrape some other website (who presumably paid IATA for the data) or Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_airports_by_IATA_and_ICAO_code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_airports_by_IATA_and_...) which may or may not be more complete/accurate than OpenBSD's own crowdsourced list.