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This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 71%. (I'm a bot)

> A 23-year-old hacker from Lucerne has caused chaos for the United States Transportation Security Administration after hacking the country's no-fly list.

> Through the vulnerable system, the hacker was able to gain access to a list which details information on 1,5 million known or suspected terrorists that are forbidden from flying.

> The hacker is already suspected of being behind a huge hack in the US in 2021, where more than 150.000 surveillance cameras belonging to the company Verkada were hacked.

Extended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: hack^#1 list^#2 Kottmann^#3 no-fly^#4 terrorists^#5

" suspected terrorists" Can be as simple as you having a weird picture with a round object in it.

It'll get better with AI, trust us.

>unsecured server

Is that really "hacking"?

If everyone would think like Turkey/Erdogan: OK. So Switzerland just lost its neutrality.

No , it’s not . This list is available to be accessed by all security at every airport. It’s simply a database.

Is the list public? Because that something can be accessed by many people doesn't mean that it can be accessed by everyone, nor that the information can be made public, or that there is no access control over it. It is the difference between public information and internal information.

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Yes. That’s how all hacking is done. If it were secured the data couldn’t be accessed.

How you get to the unsecured part depends, of course.

What I thought it was: Hacker breaks into and modifies no-fly list!!!

What it actually was: Hacker reads largely public information.

Check Lexus nexus. I got a hunch it’s quasi public information. IF You are on that list you might have been notified

it's not public at all. prove me wrong I dare you

If a human operator in an Apache with advanced optics can gun down an entire group of people because he mistook a camera for an RPG, then why can't AI do it too? Equal opportunity for our silicon brethren!