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Airline websites don’t care about privacy follow-up: Emirates in full-on denial

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Re: Airline websites don’t care about privacy follow-up: Emirates in full-on denial

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Here's a completely plausible and terrible idea someone nefarious could do given this vulnerability: Setup a laptop or some other small device that is listening to data being sent over Wifi at an airport. If you're feeling really brave, hide the device inside the airport, plugged in. Every time it picks up anything being sent over http to one of these insecure third parties, look for booking reference numbers and nam…

Or you could get sued and put in jail...that's cheaper :(
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