Oddbean new post about login | logout Got in line for automated passport control. Guy in front of me puts his passport in the scanner. It rejects his passport. He tries a few more times and then the whole machine crashes. Then he moves left to the next machine and repeats the process until it crashes. Guess what her does next? This dumb motherfucker ends up crashing all 4 passport control machines and even though they rebooted, the passport software didn't come back online.
Don't blame the player, play the game.
*blame the game
*hate
hate is a strong word
It is, just the version I have heard a lot
Fucking users!
I had my old passport for 10 years and did A LOT of travelling with it, it only worked ONCE in all that time in one of those machines🙄😂. My new one seems to be much better with a 100% success rate, so far.
Denial of service ! Maybe it was Bobby Tables https://medium.com/@johnteckert/how-little-bobby-tables-ruined-the-internet-d714c20d2ce0
Bank run at the surveillance machine
Maybe you are about to witness a heist
Blame the system. Not the poor dude suffering it.
Where others saw a problem, he saw potential!
I wonder how far from an exploit that was if it managed to brick the machines beyond re-boots. Was it the data in his passport or the data the machine got back from some server? Which part could an attacker actually control?
And yet you didn’t do anything after the second one was crashed? Soft.
I saw the machine rebooting and figured it would come back online.
Plus imagine, "Step aside, I'm __________" irl
Ah, a veritable digital medusa! This'd make for a great Cory Doctorow or Neil Stephenson scene: a character has natural facial features or has added tattoos/stickers/ makeup which fuzz or crash facial recognition systems. Like the scramble suit from Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly — "Let's hear it for the vague blur!" — except not quite so evidently anomalous. https://image.nostr.build/909c7790c7f0fab40157b8c564b1626deba934d23fc600469feb407b5d367043.jpg
I mean... to some extent, not his fault that his parents named him '); DROP TABLE Citizens;--
Legend. Now you get to pass border control via a human.
Computer said "no"... nostr:nevent1qqsgugsavjegs9cdxz2c9kyxr03gvwpv8sxjlyqfwfvwytxzzmt250cpzpmhxue69uhk2tnwdaejumr0dshsyg8h9rv7decysdvwwzfs7h9xfvyhwuxe38xds6z5lescak5u3gupqcpsgqqqqqqst0n96s
I'd do the same thing 🤷♂️
Blessing in disguise? nostr:nevent1qqsgugsavjegs9cdxz2c9kyxr03gvwpv8sxjlyqfwfvwytxzzmt250cpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7q3q7u5dneh8qjp43ecfxr6u5e9sjamsmxyuekrg2nlxrrk6nj9rsyrqxpqqqqqqzhl93gp
Must have been machines secured by CrowdStrike.
