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		always_good on Sept 23, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Post a boarding pass on Facebook, get your account... >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.

ubernostrum on Sept 23, 2017 [–]

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.

always_good on Sept 23, 2017 | [–]

Yes, which is why social engineering is going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better.

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