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This recent CCC talk demonstrates that airline reservation data is wide open: https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-7964-where_in_the_world_is_carmen_sandiego https://me

• will_pseudonym 10y ago
  This was an amazing talk. Thank you for sharing.
• TazeTSchnitzel 10y ago
  Somehow, that not only the NSA has it, but basically anyone, is reassuring.
  • cinquemb 10y ago
    I think that one of the interesting aspects of this talk was explaining that the airline companies really have no incentive to fight abuse beyond recognizable fraud. I mean, someone could build some really interesting services on top of these holes, one I was thinking of is that for customers who do not check into their flights before a certain period of time, somehow one could get those flight codes and change the information, and then people nearby the airport can hitch the ride while everything looking good from the perspective of the airline company or even a Frequent flier miles as a service, where someone just creates accounts by automatic means, and scans for trips that don't have ff codes applied and uses "their" code for it and passes those miles to someone else for a price. As we amass more and more data, and devices get cheaper to leak stuff, i wouldn't be surprised to see some interesting power shifts from traditional incumbents (the NSA's of the world, to more lean operations who are increasingly in a position to mine/exploit similar large amounts of information at scale).