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Old Mar 7, 2014 | 10:21 pm
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Originally Posted by BumpMeVoucherMeATL
Just noticed today Delta plugged a major security hole with its internet standby lists which allowed anyone to see the non-rev view of the standby list for any flight less than 24 hours from departure whether or not said person is actually checked in for the flight.

This security hole was previously reported in this forum a couple of weeks ago and then summarily deleted by the moderators as I can find no mention of it.

I'm surprised it took Delta so long to fix the problem, but it it looks like the latest batch of website updates fixed the issue.
Actually the same or a similar security hole was observed a year or two ago.
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