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Re: Get a boarding pass, steal someone's identity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Tue May 9 19:30:54 2006
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Date: 8 May 2006 18:11:24 -0000
From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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Cc: perry@piermont.com
>Have you noticed that airline tickets are once again de-facto
>transferable? If you print your own boarding pass at home, you can
>digitally change the name on it before you print.
Lots of us have noticed that, print one version for the person at
security with a name that matches the ID, print another version for
the person at the gate with a name that matches the reservation and
the bar code.
But actually, you don't even have to do that. When I travel with my
wife and daughter, whose names are completely unlike mine, I always
put the boarding passes in a stack with one of theirs on top and hand
the person my ID. I would say at least half the time they don't even
bother to look and see if one of the other passes has a name that
matches the ID.
R's,
John
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