Extracting personal info from boarding passes
Oct 7, 2015, 12:04 am
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Extracting personal info from boarding passes
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/10/w...barcode-a-lot/
This is an interesting article. While targeted to infosec folk, the takeaway should be that in this day and age, better to securely destroy (e.g. shred) your boarding passes after use. FTers of all people who tend to have a lot of valuable information in their various airline accounts.
This is an interesting article. While targeted to infosec folk, the takeaway should be that in this day and age, better to securely destroy (e.g. shred) your boarding passes after use. FTers of all people who tend to have a lot of valuable information in their various airline accounts.
Oct 15, 2015, 5:24 am
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Personally we've been in the habit of keeping our boarding passes until we've gotten home and been credited for the flight(s) in our FF accounts. Occasionally, though I don't recall it happening recently, we've not gotten a trip or flight credited and the boarding pass has been used as substantiating evidence that we did fly. Past that I can't say we've shredded them at home but I suppose it wouldn't be any big deal to throw them in our shredding box.
Oct 15, 2015, 9:52 am
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Boarding passes are exceptionally useful evidence for immigration processes even as they can also raise questions as to why one has said boarding passes available for use in the immigration process many years later.
One should keep them. Just keep them secure.
One should keep them. Just keep them secure.
Oct 15, 2015, 10:17 am
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I created an Excel spreadsheet that breaks out the data of a barcode (you read it with a barcode reader app, then paste the text into the spreadsheet). It's all openly documents on what information is in what position - name, cities, flight, ticket numbers, number of checked bags, airline, frequent flier number. Some of the stuff in the airline dependent area can vary but overall it's well documented and contains a lot of information for redundancy.
Personally I shred them once travel has finished and miles/segments have posted. It used to be a bigger problem when US was *A and I credited United flights to US - it wasn't 100% reliable that miles would credit between the two airlines.
Personally I shred them once travel has finished and miles/segments have posted. It used to be a bigger problem when US was *A and I credited United flights to US - it wasn't 100% reliable that miles would credit between the two airlines.