FBI raids home of boarding-pass creator

FBI raids home of boarding-pass creator
Robert Lemos, 2006-10-30

FBI raids home of boarding-pass creator 2006-10-30
Anonymous (1 replies)

No surprise here. We have all known that printing a fake boarding pass has been trivial since the inception of online check-in, but those who travel on a regular basis sure as hell don't want to expose them lest we return to hour+ check-in lines at the airport.

This guy seems to be quite an idiot...

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Re: FBI raids home of boarding-pass creator 2006-10-31
Anonymous

What Chris has done is probably made the airline industry a hell of allot safer, I say way to go Chris. There is a little some thing called freedom of speech out there and protecting this sort of communications is what it is all about....

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FBI raids home of boarding-pass creator 2006-10-31
Anonymous (2 replies)

So.....

1. Security researcher discloses a legitimate and important security vulnerability.

2. Security researcher uses a provocative method to display how the vulnerability can exploited.

3. Authorities overreact because it's the only

tactical option they have/they don't understand the rea...

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Re: FBI raids home of boarding-pass creator 2006-10-31
Anonymous

Less media 'zing' = less attention to problem, therefore less potential of the problem actually being corrected. Gutsy move, a look forward after this happening, brings welcome high potential that there 'will' be correction of the problem. Maybe, with enough of this type of activity, DHS will stop...

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Re: FBI raids home of boarding-pass creator 2006-10-31
Mr E

Unfortunately this isn't the right vuln. to be doing that with. The inherent risks exposed by creating an easy avenue for people to bypass security checks at airports is a pretty big attention getter, not to mention just plain stupid. Bruce Schneier addressed this vuln. a loong time ago, and explai...

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FBI raids home of boarding-pass creator 2006-10-31
Anonymous

He's a security researcher in the same sense the virus creators are security researchers. Maybe after he does some jail time he'll learn the difference between discovering an exploit and using an exploit....

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FBI raids home of boarding-pass creator 2006-10-31
Anonymous (1 replies)

The posting over on Boing Boing does NOT conclude that what was done was illegal. As is almost always the case with such rules, in the cited law it is a matter of intent: If the intent was to create and use fraudulent boarding passes the actions were illegal, if the intent was to expose the absurd a...

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Re: FBI raids home of boarding-pass creator 2006-11-03
Anonymous

In theory, he could probably be prosecuted for copyright violations as well, as the boarding passes he produced included the airline logo, and they didn't agree to its use. Really, it depends on the skill and guts of the lawyers involved what he will be charged with and how it all will go down. It's...

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FBI raids home of boarding-pass creator 2006-11-02
Juha-Matti Laurio (1 replies)

Probably as a result of related comments posted to mailing lists someone has constructed Fake FBI search warrant generator site too

http://www.dehp.net/fakewarrant/

generating real looking papers as PDF documents.

The site states the following: "Don't do anything bad plz k thx."...

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Re: FBI raids home of boarding-pass creator 2006-11-07
Anonymous (1 replies)

Heh... Good find. I am wondering what the guy means by "bad guy made this one.." They all seem to suck and have the default stuff in there.

But he is letting all see who is making them, so we'll see how that goes. ...

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Re: Re: FBI raids home of boarding-pass creator 2006-11-21
Matt

If you check the box labeled "bad," it adds that on there. Yes, unfortunately, there aren't that many creative ones. There are some good ones, though, if you look hard enough....

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