Damn dangerous! Man warns against posting photos of S’pore passport with boarding pass — shows you how hackers access personal info including last 4 digits of credit card

 

Photo: TikTok screengrab/coachjasonho

As borders and tourist destinations reopen, more and more Singaporeans are travelling abroad. A trendy way of letting the online community know of such travel plans is by posting a photo of a passport with the boarding pass.

However, even a split-second video of a Singapore passport with an unblurred boarding pass can enable hackers to change flight details and gain access to personal information, said performance coach Jason Ho in a TikTok video. “If you like to post your air ticket with your passport when you’re going overseas, this is damn dangerous for your privacy,” he said on Monday (May 30).

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Wild boar spotted at Bukit Batok roadside, netizens joke: “House them in Istana as it’s under utilise most of the time”

 

Spotting a wild boar at Bukit Batok, netizens were quick to joke that the creatures should be housed at the Istana.

The wild boar, seen on Tuesday (May 31) morning along Hillview Avenue, was spotted probably looking for food. The lone animal was along the pedestrian path as cars and people went by.

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Anita Sarawak breaks silence after almost 12 years to end rumours of her death; reassures she’s also neither sick nor divorced

 

Photo: Album cover, Anita Sarawak’s Another Dimension

She hasn’t been in the public eye since 2011, but pop diva Anita Sarawak is very much alive and kicking, in fact.

The singer also wanted to dispel rumours that she’s sick and that she’s gotten divorced from her husband, Mahathir Abdullah, who is also her manager.

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3 drinks and 2 parota for $20.60 — Netizens say ‘too expensive!!!’

 

Photo: FB screengrab/Andy Chin COMPLAINT SINGAPORE

After a netizen shared over social media the bill for three drinks and two pieces of bread, he noted that the drinks were served in a “very small cup leh” and were “very expensive leh.”

The bill, including a service charge and GST, amounted to $20.60. Here is the breakdown of his $20.60 order: One cup of hot Milo for $4, 1 filter coffee for $4.50, 1 block (sic) coffee for $3.50, and 1 order of parota (2 ccs) $5.50, plus 10 per cent service charge and 7 per cent GST.

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Jamus Lim: Adoption should be a win-win-win process to help address issue of Singaporeans ‘not having enough babies’

 

Photo: FB screengrab/jamuslim

In a Facebook post on Saturday (May 28), Workers’ Party Member of Parliament Jamus Lim addressed the topic of adoption, which he said “should be a win-win-win process” that would help address the issue of Singaporeans “not having enough babies.”

With the country’s fertility rate gone down over the past few decades, no wonder that fertility treatments are now subsidized, and adoption laws have been revised. Assoc Prof Lim wrote that he had recently spoken on the topic in Parliament concerning additional concerns on the adoption process, which he said had come about after “extensive discussions with adoptive parents, and those in the industry.”

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