August 10, 2008

"The Anatomy of a Subway Hack"?

Why MIT students was ordered by U.S. District Court NOT to show "The Anatomy of a Subway Hack"?

System Hack:

- unlocked gates and unattended surveillance booths
- access fiber switches connecting fare vending machines to the unlocked network
- techniques to clone and reverse-engineer the MBTA’s CharlieTicket magnetic stripe tickets and CharlieCard smartcards

further reading here...

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