Has anyone heard of an exploit that sets people's flights to use the attackers frequent flyer number, thus collecting their miles?
How Airlines don’t care about privacy: Case Study Emirates.com
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#12It's technical incompetence. Emirates is a fantastic airline that treats people very well. Of course this doesn't have anything to with well engineered IT systems.
Failure to accept and acknowledge these issues needs to be sorted out.Unless these issues are treated as a technical priority, organisations will have a huge impact on service delivery issues sooner or later.
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#13I oftentimes reach for my 'call the regulator' button when I read these articles. Whats odd is how many people say "god no..." as if there was some consequential downside to using the very government entity we created (in law) to make corporate entities "do the right thing" when they don't appear to want to do it voluntarily.
So.. here we go. Explain to me, why we don't want to enact law to require (through regulation) this practice to cease.
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#14> This issue is not only limited to Emirates, a lot of airlines like Lufthansa, KLM (last checked on October 2017) suffer from the same issues.
Still, god bless Emirates. Hands down, best airline.
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#15Has anyone heard of an exploit that sets people's flights to use the attackers frequent flyer number, thus collecting their miles?
Interesting thought, would be really curious to see the outcome for that. AFAIK, the link that Emirates is sharing allowed me to add my own miles number. What I am not sure is, if there is a check at the backend (Emirates side) which compares the miles number with ticket holder email ID.
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#16Has anyone heard of an exploit that sets people's flights to use the attackers frequent flyer number, thus collecting their miles?
No, because in most cases the program requires the passenger's name to match the FF account name.
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#17Yet another reason blocking ads is a must. But not just blocking ads, trackers as well. I use uMatrix and uBlock origin. Unfortunately this does nothing to deal with the aforementioned redirect chain. I suppose maybe this means it is time to go back to the telephone and flight agencies.
Hard to block all analytics because you can also shuffle them through as first party traffic too.
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#18I oftentimes reach for my 'call the regulator' button when I read these articles. Whats odd is how many people say "god no..." as if there was some consequential downside to using the very government entity we created (in law) to make corporate entities "do the right thing" when they don't appear to want to do it voluntarily. So.. here we go. Explain to me, why we don't want to enact law to require (through regulatio…
I'm waiting for someone to state "when you're not paying for something, you are the product", except in this case, you are paying for something, yet you're still the product.
This is just...disgusting.
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#19What "value" are they trying to add with all these partnerships? Security issues aside, is it as simple as these companies are paying them and they don't ask questions?
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#20I oftentimes reach for my 'call the regulator' button when I read these articles. Whats odd is how many people say "god no..." as if there was some consequential downside to using the very government entity we created (in law) to make corporate entities "do the right thing" when they don't appear to want to do it voluntarily. So.. here we go. Explain to me, why we don't want to enact law to require (through regulatio…
I'm waiting for someone to state "when you're not paying for something, you are the product", except in this case, you are paying for something, yet you're still the product. This is just...disgusting.
This comment is spot on. Do you mind if I use it as a caption on the artice aswell(with due credits)