#no fly maia

[madohomurat]

Don't know if u made a post about this or it was floating around, but were you also bothered by the rethoric surrounding the initial bi lesbian discourse? A lot of people were like, "who cares about the identity stuff when people are dying, the list had children, etc." It felt so shitty to read because the United States has always been deeply bigoted and people are always dying. Don't get me wrong, it's huge that a list like that was found, but does this mean all other conversations must stop? Additionally, I never something like, "here's how we organize with this info in mind to create change" floating around. If there was one, it was no where near comparable to the fame the silencing arguments had. People pointing at the list and exclaiming this is horrible therefore we should only speak on this, and then having no other productive discussion over the list really makes me believe people were using the list as a guilt trip tactic to silence lesbians speaking up for ourselves!! Thank you for speaking up I appreciate seeing your posts.

yeah i found it painfully ironic that the forefront of the news was either memes, or people defending mspec lesbian identities. i remember being frustrated because i went into the no fly list tag and theres was barely any actual helpful information for people actually affected by the list

i think it was an act of demonizing lesbians over something that wasnt really happening. i think some people said some terrible shit to maia on twitter and then people inflated the issue saying their were legions of evil lesbians harassing her. just another reason to hate us

[nyancrimew]

almost a year after i released a 2019 copy of the nofly list for journalism and research there is now an in depth paper on the ethno-religious over-representation in it. very interesting read, and confirms much of what we already suspected!

Garofalo, M. (2024) “Singular Purpose: Calculating the Degree of Ethno-Religious Over-representation in the US No-Fly List”, International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy. doi: 10.5204/ijcjsd.3069.

[the-final-sif]

I feel like there's two parts to the no fly list leak that are getting overlooked right now

1) the person in question has the handle "maia arson crimew" meaning media outlets have to cite "crimew" as the person they're quoting, which is amazing.

2) From everything I've read, crimew didn't actually commit a crime (in this case at least). According to crimew, the no-fly list was discovered on a publicly accessible server, totally unsecured. crimew was using Shodan which is a totally legal tool regularly used by a lot of the security community for research. Schools use and provide access to Shodan, it's a normal tool. Nothing crimew was doing was out of the ordinary. Her access and use of the file was most likely legal (or at least next to impossible to prosecute), given that it was publicly accessible.

crimew even notified CommuteAir of the data vulnerability. Which prevented more sensitive data from leaking, and was absolutely a sign of acting in good faith. Her obligation to even do that is a pretty gray area, but she did it anyways.

Now, crimew has gotten charged by the US in the past for other things, however, Swiss citizens cannot be extradited against their will. So the proceedings were suspended. She could only be charged under Swiss law, and given that the data is/was publicly accessible and the exposure was for public good, that's very unlikely to happen.

The people actually getting investigated by congress/the FBI/the TSA are the idiots at CommuteAir that were hosting the no fly list on an unsecured publicly accessible server. They're the ones who actually get in trouble for failing to have followed basic security protocols. They're the ones who had a legal obligation to safe guard that data, and they're the ones who fucked up.

[alanshemper]

“The lists found by maia and shared with journalists and researchers confirm the TSA’s (1) Islamophobia, (2) overconfidence in the certainty of its pre-crime predictions, and (3) mission creep.”

[negrophobic]

[mag150cul-de-sac]

[underwhelmingalchemist]

No more discourse over maia arson crimew's use of neopronouns and labels. If someone asks you how you identify and you can say 'as an enemy of the state' with no exaggeration whatsoever, you get to call yourself whatever the fuck you want

[miamitu-illust]

stay silly :3 (clean ver under cut)

[demonsandpieohmy]

[squeaky-warrior]

Okay y'all probably know about trans catgirl hacker maia arson crimew by now but did you know its got a kick ass merch store with absolutely fantastic shirts and such you can get?

Here's some highlights:

And then of course there's this, in all it's low effort glory:

So I know what I'm gonna be spending my money on.

[gerardswayg]

[fungi-maestro]

The :3 heard around the world

[chaberkowepole]

I still can't get over the fact that some people have a qualm with a Swiss person using "it" pronouns when that is a very common thing to do for non binary people here

Every time I'm in a queer meeting there is somebody who introduces itself with "es", we don't have native they/them pronouns, different languages and queer cultures exist like,,,,

And even if it wasn't common you people need to chill

[vulto-cor-de-rosa]

Shout out to the Cat girl that found the TSA no fly list and posted it with the caption "Holy fucking bingle"

[colorfulatlas]

hacker kitten fanart

[im-fern]

bingle

(Edit, “leaked” isn’t really the right word, it has sent the list to a reporter.)