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Get a boarding pass, steal someone's identity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Sun May 7 12:57:42 2006
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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Sun, 07 May 2006 12:53:41 -0400
I got this pointer off of Paul Hoffman's blog. Basically, a reporter
uses information on a discarded boarding pass to find out far too much
about the person who threw it away....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/idcards/story/0,,1766266,00.html
The story may be exaggerated but it feels quite real. Certainly I've
found similar issues in the past.
These days, I shred practically anything with my name on it before
throwing it out. Perhaps I'm paranoid, but then again...
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Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com
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