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Old Aug 5, 2016, 1:02 pm
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Wired: Fake Boarding Pass App Gets Hacker Into Fancy Airline Lounges

It’s an Android app that generates fake QR codes to spoof a boarding pass on his phone’s screen for any name, flight number, destination and class. And based on his experiments with the spoofed QR codes, almost none of the airline lounges he’s tested actually check those details against the airline’s ticketing database—only that the flight number included in the QR code exists
https://www.wired.com/2016/08/fake-b...rline-lounges/
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