By Dilshz Chathuranga
When we travel by air, we hold onto our boarding passes like our lives depend on it, before boarding. We know that without it we are not getting on that plane. Once we have boarded, many of us become more careless about it’s whereabouts, because we are done with it. Sometimes we slip it in the seat pocket in front of us, stick it in a magazine, or just chuck it.
Until watching this video I never realized that my
carelessness with the boarding pass had the potential to land me in a ton of
trouble! Evidently there is personal information frequently encrypted on the
pass, according to ‘Krebs on Security”.
All that an unscrupulous person has to do is get a screen
shot of the bar code on the boarding pass, and feed it into a bar code reader
on “Inlite’s” site. It was pointed out by a forensic expert for CBS, Winston
Krone, that it is possible for the encrypted information on the bar code to
contain personal email addresses, home addresses and phone numbers. Access to
personal financial information is just a step away. Please watch the footage
below to help insure the safety of your personal information. I never would
have dreamed that being careless with my boarding pass could lead to such
potential damage.
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