Congress “will be coming for answers,” a Republican congressman said.
from 2019 has leaked, uncovered by a Swiss cybersecurity researcher and hacktivist who claims to have discovered it on an unsecured internet server belonging to an airline.that a hacktivist who uses the moniker maia arson crimew found the list one evening while browsing a Shodan, a search engine for Internet-connected devices. According to crimew, a publicly accessible server run by CommuteAir contained a text file titled “NoFly.csv” with more than 1.5 million names.
The No Fly List contains names/aliases and birthdates of individuals who are known or suspected to be terrorists. The list prohibits those on it from flying on commercial airlines traveling within, to or from the U.S. The list included known Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout along with 16 possible aliases for him, crimew said.
“It’s just crazy to me how big that Terrorism Screening Database is and yet there is still very clear trends towards almost exclusively Arabic and Russian sounding names throughout the million entries,” crimew said to The Daily Dot. Some people on the list, crimew said, would have been only four or five years old at the time they were on the list.. “I feel like this is just a very perverse outgrowth of the surveillance state. And not just in the U.S., this is a global trend.
The list has grown by hundreds of thousands since the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, and civil liberties groups, including the
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