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How Airlines don’t care about privacy: Case Study Emirates.com

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Re: How Airlines don’t care about privacy: Case Study Emirates.com

#31

How do Expedia, Travelocity, etc. compare with airline booking sites?

Lot of the e-commerce sites are bound to similar leaks. I remember reporting similar issues to MakeMytrip.com, Expedia last year, MakeMyTrip.com was prompt enough to fix these issues. Sadly, never go any response from Expedia so not sure if they fixed the issues or not.

Re: How Airlines don’t care about privacy: Case Study Emirates.com

#32

I mean - after Equifax got away with leaking SSNs, Names, Addresses with DoBs of all 142M Americans - this is seriously nothing. At this point, I have become apathetic on these privacy related issues as nothing will be done.

All 142m Americans?

Re: How Airlines don’t care about privacy: Case Study Emirates.com

#33
post #29

i wonder how GDPR will affect this sort of issue.

In this case, the airline would have to get explicit consent for sharing the user's personal data with third parties. So at the very least, it will increase transparency. Post-GDPR, in the event of negligence, organizations like https://noyb.eu/ will become more relevant as mediums for collective action in the form of class action suits.

EDIT: (Addendum) - The user would also have the right to ask the first party (airline) to "require" third parties it has shared personal data with, to delete them. Enforcing this however, will be hard.

Re: How Airlines don’t care about privacy: Case Study Emirates.com

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post #32

I mean - after Equifax got away with leaking SSNs, Names, Addresses with DoBs of all 142M Americans - this is seriously nothing. At this point, I have become apathetic on these privacy related issues as nothing will be done.

All 142m Americans?

Adults that have credit history, I believe.

Re: How Airlines don’t care about privacy: Case Study Emirates.com

#35
If you look at https://track.emirates.email you will see that it isn't emirates either, but a service provided by Mandrill, an add-on for MailChimp, and the cert is valid for https://mandrillapp.com. Surely they could have figured out how to use SNI.

The fact that your mail client / embedded browser takes you happily to sites with broken certs, giving them a tracking token (and in this case, total access to your booking) is also quite a problem.

Re: How Airlines don’t care about privacy: Case Study Emirates.com

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post #30

In line with the age-old advice on how sausages are made, here's my advice: don't ever inspect the data leaving a mobile device. – Just as I was about to add this comment, I remembered how it's not limited to mobile devices anymore. (Thankfully with certificate pinning and integrity checking you may be spared of the risk of ever finding out what your apps actually do. Remember: only weirdos and terrorists tinker.)

Certificate pinning is going away: http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-chrome-is-backing-away-f...

I think we can be confident that sites that don't even use CSP won't be implementing Expect-CT any time.

Re: How Airlines don’t care about privacy: Case Study Emirates.com

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post #30

In line with the age-old advice on how sausages are made, here's my advice: don't ever inspect the data leaving a mobile device. – Just as I was about to add this comment, I remembered how it's not limited to mobile devices anymore. (Thankfully with certificate pinning and integrity checking you may be spared of the risk of ever finding out what your apps actually do. Remember: only weirdos and terrorists tinker.)

Certificate pinning is going away: http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-chrome-is-backing-away-f... I think we can be confident that sites that don't even use CSP won't be implementing Expect-CT any time.

Presumably GP was talking about in-app certificate pinning, not Google’s opinion of the day...

Re: How Airlines don’t care about privacy: Case Study Emirates.com

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post #30

In line with the age-old advice on how sausages are made, here's my advice: don't ever inspect the data leaving a mobile device. – Just as I was about to add this comment, I remembered how it's not limited to mobile devices anymore. (Thankfully with certificate pinning and integrity checking you may be spared of the risk of ever finding out what your apps actually do. Remember: only weirdos and terrorists tinker.)

Certificate pinning is going away: http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-chrome-is-backing-away-f... I think we can be confident that sites that don't even use CSP won't be implementing Expect-CT any time.

HPKP is what the article you posted to is referring to, and probably will go away completely.

However, profiling the public key of the site a mobile app connects to and erroring out if it is compromised to prevent MitM attacks is called 'certificate pinning' for mobile apps but is not related to the HPKP pinning of browsers. A reference for certificate pinning: https://blog.netspi.com/certificate-pinning-in-a-mobile-appl...

Re: How Airlines don’t care about privacy: Case Study Emirates.com

#40
airlines regularly transmit PNR info to third parties with no crypto at all, sadly, it is their default industry standard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_name_record

the entire airline industry runs on software that is about 25-30 years behind the state of the art.

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