NSA Broke Into Foreign Airlines And Reservation Systems: Report
Skift Take
Airlines is such a strategic sector that it will be a big surprise if this NSA security dragnet hasn't already broken into the systems of air carriers, reservation systems and booking sites.
Even as the revelations about the extent of NSA spying and snooping on our communication systems continue to grow -- based on top-secret documents revealed by former contractor Edward Snowden -- it is to be expected that the travel industry would be swept up into it as well. More specifically, the airline industry, both as a result of its key role in keeping tabs on movements of suspected terrorists, and as a target of disruption by them as well.
The latest blockbuster revelation came yesterday, via a joint report by The New York Times, The Guardian and Propublica, about NSA long-running secret war
