Teens Hacked Boston Subway Cards to Get Infinite Free Rides—and This Time, Nobody Got Sued
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In 2008, Boston’s transit authority sued to stop MIT hackers from presenting at the Defcon hacker conference on how to get free subway rides. Today, four teens picked up where they left off.
  • aard@kyu.deEnglish
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    11 months ago

    It’s amazing how much NFC stuff is still badly done - and how bad the response to discoveries is. I recently got a police report filed against me here in Finland for pointing out that guarding personal details of kids and parents on a phone used in daycare by an empty tag, just by the tags UID is probably a stupid idea.

    • vlad@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      11 months ago

      If there aren’t enough people that are knowledgeable enough to take advantage of something to have an impact on revenue, then you just ignore it.