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Re:App Analysis: Air Canada by eastbayjake on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @11:23PM (#19102982)
This write-up doesn't actually state where these unobfuscated images came from, so it's not clear to me where (or whether) there are actually unobfuscated images in Air Canada's system. Tools like Glassbox usually mark PII fields with CSS classes to blur/redact fields when the screenshots are taken. It looks like the author may have found password and credit card fields without these CSS classes and manually recreated what the unobfuscated fields would look like with dummy data, but it's also possible to configure these tools to not log entire pages or directories -- this is how payment pages are usually configured, with screenshotting completely disabled.

If the (anonymous) author simply mocked up what these screenshots _might_ look like if they were saved, that's pretty misleading.

Re:App Analysis: Air Canada by theappanalyst on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @11:29PM (#19103000)
Author here, these are not mockups and if you watch the video linked you can see me replay the session I captured using a https proxy. Hope that clears things up, thanks for your interest!
Re:App Analysis: Air Canada by lifeisstillgood on Thursday February 07, 2019 @01:17AM (#19103413)
I had a similar question - I would recommend making that clear on an edit of the post

But thanks for this - I had no idea such things were prevalent ... now I wonder if I should surf with a proxy on to see what's being sent ...

Re:App Analysis: Air Canada by z3t4 on Thursday February 07, 2019 @06:02AM (#19104396)
It's very sobering. But much harder now when everything is on HTTPS.