What’s in a Boarding Pass Barcode? A Lot

[frogboy]

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http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/10/whats-in-a-boarding-pass-barcode-a-lot/

The next time you’re thinking of throwing away a used boarding pass with a barcode on it, consider tossing the boarding pass into a document shredder instead. Two-dimensional barcodes and QR codes can hold a great deal of information, and the codes printed on airline boarding passes may allow someone to discover more about you, your future travel plans, and your frequent flyer account.
Earlier this year, I heard from a longtime KrebsOnSecurity reader named Cory who said he began to get curious about the data stored inside a boarding pass barcode after a friend put a picture of his boarding pass up on Facebook. Cory took a screen shot of the boarding pass, enlarged it, and quickly found a site online that could read the data.

Full article.http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/10/whats-in-a-boarding-pass-barcode-a-lot/

 

[LabZero]

Very, very informative thread

 

[frogboy]

Very, very informative thread

Luckily i have never been on a plane.

 

[LabZero]

Luckily i have never been on a plane.

I have been on the plane and ... unfortunately I threw away my boarding card without destroying it.

 

[Sr. Normal]

I have to travel by plane twice a year and am among those who throw away this information. And it is stupid, because the proof of payment to the destroyed it town hall and are virtually identical to those of the airplane.
thanks for the info, I think that I write 100 times "I have to think about how to protect my data"