Boarding Pass Dude's Computers Seized, Public Service Praised
BoingBoing is really your one-stop shop but:
• The FBI seized Chris Soghoian's computers and ransacked his house.
• The congressman who called for Soghoian's arrest essentially retracted his comments and praised Soghoian for performing a public good, though he called it, "a lousy way of doing it."
• A TSA spokeswoman said, "Does this pose a threat to security? No."
• A Northwest spokesman said, "If someone were to print a fraudulent boarding pass with a first-class seat that was unassigned, they would quickly be discovered by our flight attendants."
• You can still mod your NWA boarding pass by hand-editing the HTML. Unless you're a noob.
So it looks like that website wasn't a danger, didn't aid terrorists, and was basically useless except for one thing: pointing out a big ol' security hole. Awesome, glad we got that one figured out.
Previously: Fake NWA Boarding Pass Site Removed, Creator Visited By FBI
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He would've done better to print up a bunch of fake passes for reporters, and mail them to those reporters.
And, may I add, the President and his Cabinet, and each member of the Senate and Congress. Make sure the officials know that the press was also contacted.
Looks like the government is a tad defensive about Homeland Security's incompetence.
Happy happy joy joy. It's good to see that Rep Markey realized the context of Soghoian's actions, realized he erred then courageously did a 180. Awesome!
Hey out of curiosity, how many of you campers wrote Markey asking him to reconsider?
I did (nicely!!). Curious to see if any Consumeristas got involved too.
Stuff like this really makes me want to vomit. They better give him his equipment back.
Markey is one of the true progressives in the Congress, Marty Meehan is another (pushed for true net neutrality vs the lobby-funded crap, as well as fought like a demon for term limits.)
"You can still mod your NWA boarding pass by hand-editing the HTML."
Now I guess all there is left to do for the FBI is to ransack every household where those so called hands are used for that illegal hand-editing of the HTML. Also MS Frontpage.
Wow. We are becoming a police state.
He would've done better to print up a bunch of fake passes for reporters, and mail them to those reporters.