Originally published at: Why Posting Boarding Pass Photos Is a Bad Idea - TidBITS
In a long, amusingly written blog post, the hacker known as “Alex” outlines how he discovered former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott’s passport number and phone number from an ill-advised Instagram post, got Qantas to fix the security hole, and avoided going to jail.
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Why would anybody want to post the photo of the boarding pass for the whole world to see? I don’t get it.
Seriously! Did you see the screenshot in the article where he showed that over 120,000 posts on Instagram have the #boardingpass hashtag?
Such a fascinating and entertaining read! Thanks for linking. Laughed out loud several times…
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“We like to change out PM every 6mths for security reasons…” – lol! 
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