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Oyster Card Hack To Be Released, In Good Time

Posted by timothy on from the crackers-don't-follow-injunctions dept.

DangerFace writes "A little while ago some Dutch researchers cracked the Oyster card, meaning they could get free public transport around London. The company that makes the cards, NXP, sought and got an injunction to stop the exploit being published, but that has now been overruled by a Dutch judge. The lovely Dutch blokes are holding off from releasing the hack for the time being, to give NXP time to secure their systems."

2 of 246 comments (clear)

  1. Not just Oyster by jnik · · Score: 5, Informative

    According to Wikipedia, the same tech is used by Atlanta, DC Metro, the L, and the T.

  2. Re:Their paper has leaked by quarrel · · Score: 5, Informative

    To quote from the paper you linked:

    "
    This paper is not the same as the paper that is subject to a lawsuit by NXP. It is available on the web since several months and will be published officially in the proceedings of the Cardis'08 conference in september. The paper of the lawsuit builds on it.
    "

    So while related, it is different for some value of different..

    --Q