The fastest way to get VIP treatment when you land...seriously, how dumb do you have to be to try something like this? This person on Reddit stole my thoughts verbatim: "committing federal crimes from inside a sealed metal tube that lands exactly where the feds are waiting is certainly a strategy."

https://www.reddit.com/r/delta/comments/1vl52vr/dl591_lasatl_arrival_met_by_federal_agents/

@briankrebs now to find out who has disappeared from Mastodon in the past day 🤣

@briankrebs There are less elaborate ways to "spot the fed" but I will say it is effective.

@zalasur well done

@GossiTheDog @briankrebs

Would this be called mapping the hole

@briankrebs https://live.acarsdrama.com/@acarsdrama/117072256729860162

@SmartAsABrick oh my. thanks for that resource (bookmarks tab)

via @SmartAsABrick adding for visibility

https://live.acarsdrama.com/@acarsdrama/117072256729860162

@briankrebs But we are spreading cybersecurity awareness. This was just for fun.

@briankrebs @acarsdrama you shared that Acars message, right ?

@Sobex @acarsdrama t00t #2 in this thread :)

@briankrebs They never learned the most important lesson.

"Just because you can, does not mean you should."

@briankrebs the call is coming from within the house. 🏡

@dey The cybersecurity awareness you spread to me starts to itch. It also hurts to pee.

@briankrebs

@dey @briankrebs

a good way to raise awareness is to scare the normies

but you want to scare the normies in subtle ways

not in ways that directly provoke normie responses

@briankrebs sceptical about that report. I saw the acars drama, but how did this person get all that very specific info? seems implausible, and more like a story made up to fit the acars drama that was trending.

@briankrebs I'm sure it was just an LLM that broke out of its secure sandbox.

@briankrebs Damn. Every day you read something new and you think, they cant be this dumb, yet here we are.

@briankrebs It would be nice if DEF CON would ban them from attending in the future. They won't, but it would be nice.

@gsuberland @briankrebs The plane was full of other symposium attendees. Occam's razor would posit one of them alerted the flight crew, and that it wasn't a complicated conspiracy.

@StumpyTheMutt @briankrebs I would put "source: I made it up for clout" higher up the Occam's razor list than that, but sure.

@briankrebs Does Def Con vet participants? Because these guys are criminals and it's a good thing they found a welcoming committee on arrival.

@briankrebs I'm surprised they caught on mid flight honestly. Something had to be really obviously not right to be so clearly more than a technical issue and prompt a request for feds at the destination.

Also like. why. This is just literal cybercrime. Did they think they'd be able to submit this to Delta as a vulnerability or something? Was this literally just DEFCON attendee behavior with zero thoughts put in? Never can understand how people think there's anything impressive or cool about fucking with people non-consensually. Seriously this is the exact opposite of following the hacker ethos.

In any event I guess Delta got the win here since the incident was caught so quickly.