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Travel dilemmas: Secret information trove?

What does your boarding pass say about you? Enough to stop me from wadding it up and throwing it in the trash as I used to do. Thanks to help from Brett Snyder, president of CrankyFlier.com, which deals with all manner of airline questions, and CrankyConcierge.com, which offers air travel assistance, emergency or preventive, here's what I've learned about an old boarding pass that was curled up on my desk unattended and ripe for prying eyes.

You read from time to time that paper boarding passes contain lots of secret information. There is information, but, Snyder said, not top-secret stuff.

"Most of

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