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Edward Hasbrouck
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Edward Hasbrouck's personal blog at hasbrouck.org covers politics and culture. Since 2009, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 31 times, most often “Analysis of the United Airlines passenger removal incident”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (13) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Edward Hasbrouck's blog and articles as sources on airline reservation data, travel surveillance, border databases, ID card standards and US draft registration. Comments cite them without judging them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 13 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Edward Hasbrouck, The Practical Nomad
Most-linked posts?
- Analysis of the United Airlines passenger removal incident2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-04-20
- /blog/archives/001001.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-09-02
What Hacker News says?
I would think the limiting factor is availability. You can pre-compute valid fares between cities super-fast with sufficient computing power, but you're still (somewhat) limited by the rate at which you can update availability, which _still_ has to be polled from airline systems (to some degree) and can't give you answers in <400ms :) One of the bits ITA/QPX got really right was smart availability caching ( http://h…
Comment linking /blog/archives/001880.html
on “Google Flight Search”Submitted Analysis of the United Airlines passenger removal incident as a story · 443 points
HN discussionFYI, I've added an update in the comments to my original article at: https://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/002292.html I finally spoke with United Airlines spokesperson Charlie Hobart today, after this article was published. Mr. Hobart told me that the gate agents handling United Express flights at O'Hare, including those who called in what Mr. Hobart described as "Chicago Department of Aviation security officers", we…
Comment linking /blog/archives/002292.html
on “Analysis of the United Airlines passenger removal incident”Submitted T-Mobile USA doesn't comply with its German parent company’s GDPR policies as a story · 158 points
HN discussionThe article wasn't about me or my experience. I disclosed this background fact in case some readers might think it relevant in assessing my reporting and analysis. I've spoken publicly before about my experiences with Chicago police (not the Aviation Department police), including "minor" torture. (I repeat the qualifier, although in quotation marks because no torture is truly minor.) It hasn't risen to the top of my…
Comment linking /blog/archives/002168.html
on “Analysis of the United Airlines passenger removal incident”Submitted What's in a Passenger Name Record (PNR)? (2013) as a story · 78 points
HN discussion> For one thing, it goes out of its way to paint fairly ordinary things (the use of regional carriers, and the fact that there are many regional carriers, and many of them have contracts with multiple mainline carriers) as "deceptive" (and implying that code-sharing among partner airlines is also "deceptive"). It is deceptive. https://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/001804.html https://hasbrouck.org/articles/alliances.h…
Comment linking /bio/
on “Analysis of the United Airlines passenger removal incident”Submitted What's in a Passenger Name Record (PNR)? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThis is the comment I wrote almost a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6870933 I was not aware the USA has so many information about every single travel. According to this [1] they record everything. - amtrack - trains in the EU (including sit numbers) - bus travel in the EU - plane travel in the EU on a carrier that doesn't fly to the US - hotel reservations - pedestrian border crossing Everything. [1]…
Comment linking /articles/Hasbrouck-Cato-2APR2013.pdf
on “Ars editor learns feds have his old IP addresses, full credit card numbers”Submitted Amex cancelled my card. Now what should I do? (2009) as a story · 3 points
HN discussion"TECS was the first pre-DHS database of Federal government logs of international travel. Several other “systems of records” (a term of art used in the Privacy Act) about travelers, including the Automated Targeting System (ATS) and DHS copies of PNR data (airline reservations) were originally considered part of TECS. The TECS file for an individual traveler typically includes a log of their border crossings (with re…
Comment linking /documents/secondary.pdf
on “How airline reservations are used to target illegal searches”Submitted California bill would require draft registration for driver's licenses as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttp://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/001001.html
Comment linking /blog/archives/001001.html
on “Your real tax rate: 40%”Submitted Senate and House “Defense” bills would extend draft registration to women as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI was not aware the USA has so many information about every single travel. According to this [1] they record everything. - amtrack - trains in the EU (including sit numbers) - bus travel in the EU - plane travel in the EU on a carrier that doesn't fly to the US - hotel reservations - pedestrian border crossing Everything. [1] http://hasbrouck.org/articles/Hasbrouck-Cato-2APR2013.pdf
Comment linking /articles/Hasbrouck-Cato-2APR2013.pdf
on ““No-fly” trial: Closing arguments”Submitted Reply to DHS Claims that Travel Dossiers are Exempt from the Privacy Act as a story · 2 points
HN discussionProbably not that high, but you may be surprised. http://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/001001.html
Comment linking /blog/archives/001001.html
on “Elon Musk Wants to Put Man on Mars in '12 to 15 Years'”Submitted The Practical Nomad blog: Permission to travel as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYes. The format for date of birth is DDMMMYY Eg January 12 2023 would be 12JAN23 And February 17 1994 would be 17FEB94 I think you can see where this is going January 12 1923 would also be 12JAN23 https://hasbrouck.org/documents/APIS.html
Comment linking /documents/APIS.html
on “Airline keeps mistaking 101-year-old woman for baby”- __ · 2009-07-18
Submitted Google finally starts a travel guide service, sort of as a story · 1 points
HN discussion From the article it appears that the ID card is using the ICAO eMRTD standard: http://www.hasbrouck.org/documents/ICAO9303-pt3.pdf Field 15 of the card is reserved for PKI. Specifically, this field can be used to sign the rest of the data on the card. There's really no reason why the state can't sign the data on the card using a private key and make a public key available for verification.
Comment linking /documents/ICAO9303-pt3.pdf
on “UK's new ID card hacked within minutes”The way to make women ad men equal with respect to the draft is to repeal the Military Selective Service Act, as supported by many feminists: https://hasbrouck.org/draft/repeal.html More on what femninists say about the dratt and draft registration: https://hasbrouck.org/draft/women/feminism.html
Comment linking /draft/women/feminism.html
on “Automatic registration for US Military draft to begin in December”This article takes for granted the success of this attempt to "automagically" identify and locate all potential draftees, and doesn't mention the practical difficulties, the opposition, or the legislative alternatives. Here's why this won't work and is such a bad idea, and why dozens of organizations have already issued a joint call to "repeal* the Military Selective Service Act instead of trying to step up preparat…
Comment linking /draft/automatic/
on “Automatic registration for US Military draft to begin in December”
