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Old Oct 12, 2015 | 4:57 pm
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Originally Posted by Kevin Liu
is this relevant to the bar code thing on boarding pass people are talking about recently ?
Doubtful. Boarding passes contain a barcode with detailed and unencrypted information about you and your itinerary, though, so you should be cautious about where you leave them and shred/destroy them when you're finished.

But it seems unlikely that someone would find a random boarding pass and use the SkyMiles number from it to repeatedly harass a person like this without any motive. I'd expect the threat in that case would be more someone redeeming your frequent flier miles without your consent - and even that would require them to know your passcode or to convince a phone agent to make the booking.
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