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Re:Post a boarding pass on Facebook, get your account stolen by always_good on Saturday September 23, 2017 @11:15AM (#15320093)
>requires the attacker to know you do this

Nah, "well, it kinda looks like random characters" is information a support rep will give you.

Welcome to social engineering and info escalation.

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Re:Post a boarding pass on Facebook, get your account stolen by ubernostrum on Saturday September 23, 2017 @02:08PM (#15320913)
If the support rep is just giving away enough info to figure this out, there is nothing you can do to protect yourself against the company's policies.
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Re:Post a boarding pass on Facebook, get your account stolen by always_good on Saturday September 23, 2017 @05:27PM (#15321834)
Yes, which is why social engineering is going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better.
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