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  Interested in learning what’s in your boarding pass barcode? 
  Take a picture of the barcode with your phone, and upload it to this site.

Woah! We are talking about private information being easily accessed from our boarding passes and there is a passage on uploading it to some site online. Wouldn't that be ill-advised.

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I basically read this as "Worried someone has your credit card information? Enter your credit card number to find out!"

Someone has sorta done that http://ismycreditcardstolen.com/

(Try to submit bogus data to see the results :) )

I was just about to say the same thing. I'm surprised at this coming from Krebs.

Krebs has some pretty awesome stuff, but i came here to say this as well. inlitedataresearch.com doesn't seem like the place to do this and while he probably assumes you understand the risks/used a google image instead, it did not flow well.

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