Q Misell
Q is a researcher at the Max-Planck Institut für Informatik in Saarbrücken, focusing its work on Internet architecture and security. In its spare time, it runs Glauca Digital, a domain registrar and web host. It's also a massive train nerd 🚄.
Fedi: @q@glauca.space
Website: magicalcodewit.ch
Session
12.09
20:20
90min
Railways won’t tell us how their train tickets work - shall we force them to?
Q Misell, CraftByte
In 2024, we each seperately submitted Freedom of Information requests to our country’s railway operators, asking for specification about how their barcodes worked. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
This talk details the drama, lies, and nonsense, that ensued as seemingly every part of the UK’s and Slovenian rail industry set out to stop us from getting access to the documents we requested.
C205 - IFG Arena