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Maybe UA get a kick-back from the agencies as well, since flying (international) would give the agencies identities, photos, fingerprints and a right to search
by draugadrotten 11y ago
Maybe UA get a kick-back from the agencies as well, since flying (international) would give the agencies identities, photos, fingerprints and a right to search the luggage of interesting hackers.
- rmc 11y agoPretty sure the US Gov has access to US Passports.,
- JupiterMoon 11y agoYes. What they don't have access to (with 100% certainty) is the other part of the potential dataset -- i.e. lists of grey-hat hackers. (Again I doubt that this is actually an NSA backed scheme.)
- jon-wood 11y agoSorry that you're the one to get the brunt of this, but I'm really bored of the NSA snark on unrelated articles. Yes, we get that they've done some terrible things. No, they didn't set up UA's security disclosure problem in some sort of obscure conspiracy to get hold of hacker's passport numbers.
- JupiterMoon 11y agoOn balance I probably agree that this particular scheme is unlikely to be an NSA scheme. However, if we learned anything from Snowden it is err on the side of assuming that if it is possible then the NSA will eventually try to do it - and this definitely includes forcing US companies to act on their behalf. So post-Snowden the derogatory slur of "obscure conspiracy" doesn't carry so much weight.