Originally Posted by
eyancy
The creation of an account to be used for “screen scrapping” or other methods of automated data collection using the GetThere booking tool is strictly forbidden. Any entity that has created an account for this purpose should stop doing so immediately.
Eric Yancy,
Information Security Officer, GetThere
Originally Posted by
A_Lee
my guess would be that KVS, even if being technically correct, could easily be doing it indirectly. For example, if their software just did some accessing of a webpage where credential information was shown, pull up that data and store it into a file, then they'd be technically correct that their software doesn't store those credentials internally
Originally Posted by
A_Lee
Well, if the access of the GetThere data is at all illegal in certain jurisdictions, then that begs the question of the owners/moderators here on FlyerTalk as to whether the promotion of a tool that is using illegal methods and/or the owner of the tool suggesting to users to illegally access data is in violation of the terms and condition of this website.
Originally Posted by
A_Lee
In my view,
It's interesting to see how A_Lee is assuming how KVS works, and then quoting the terms and conditions of this website.
KVS does NOT use any credentials of its own, nor does it store any information from any website. It's merely a presentation tool, using the user's credentials to log in to the website (which the user can easily do himself), showing the same information obtained from the webpage.
The above can be verified using simple tools. Everything that KVS does, can be done with a regular browser. Using KVS takes the same amount of time as using a regular browser, (meaning that if, for example, the BA website is slow, then the BA method in KVS would be just as slow). KVS is similar to an Ad Blocker tool, that hides part of webpage when you browse it.