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Airline passengers’ bookings and info leaked by boarding gate displays

Airline passengers' bookings and info leaked by boarding gate displays

Boarding gate displays at an airport leaked information that could have allowed attackers to gain access to passengers’ bookings and their personal details.

David Bisson reports.

Graham Cluley

Chinese air passenger’s refusal to stow phone earns her 5 days ‘detention’

With U.S. aviation officials poised to lift their longstanding ban on cellphone use in commercial airliners, such is most decidedly not the case in China.

From a website with which I was previously unfamiliar called ChinaSMACK:

Beijing Times report — While on a flight from Changchun to Beijing, Yu X used her mobile phone to make calls multiple times. Not only did she ignore flight attendants who asked her to stop, she also exhibited a nasty attitude refusing to turn off her phone. After the plane landed, she was summoned to the police station. At present, Yu X has been given an administrative punishment of 5 days detention by the airport police.

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Network World Paul McNamara