Beware of the boarding pass selfie: how your vacation pics might invite hackers

Back in the old stranger danger days, everyone was warned not to even embroider your name on jerseys or jackets in case one random person could call your name and lure you into their white free-candy van. The actual risk level was really impossibly low.

Now some people are putting hundreds of identifiable details about their life online for millions of strangers. The risk level probably isn’t as high as some of the moral panic people would have us believe. But it does seem higher than the risk of a stranger on the street.

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