Article 1PKJK Airport lounges will let anyone in, provided you can fake a QR code

Airport lounges will let anyone in, provided you can fake a QR code

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Cory Doctorow
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When computer security expert and hardcore traveller Przemek Jaroszewski found that he couldn't enter an airline lounge in Warsaw because the automated reader mistakenly rejected his boarding card, he wrote a 600-line Javascript program that generated a QR code for "Batholemew Simpson," a business-class traveller on a flight departing that day. (more")

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