Saturday, October 28, 2006

FBI Returns to 'Fake Boarding Pass' Guy's Home, Seizes Computers - Updated

A bit heavy-handed, methinks.

Via Boing Boing.

Christopher Soghoian today blogs that the FBI returned to his home last night in his absence with a search warrant, and seized computers and other belongings.

The 24-year old computer science student is the creator of a website that generated fake airline boarding passes to illustrate a security flaw which has been documented on the 'net since (at least) 2003.

More here.

Update: More here.

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