Oyster Card Hack To Be Released, In Good Time

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."

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Roads aren't always *that* bad

[jesterzog]

Prolonged exposure to roadside air anywhere isn't exactly a day at the spa...

I don't live in a city anywhere near as large as most cities (~300,000) and I doubt we have anywhere near as many cars, but I've generally found air around vehicles much easier to breathe than air around groups of people, specifically because the latter is often full of smokers (where I am, at least). Cigarette smoke lingers a long way from people who smoke and for a long time after, and the air's much more stale. This is especially the case since local laws recently forced smokers out of workplaces, which means everyone smokes on the streets.

Perhaps vehicle manufactures have had much more motivation to clean up the exhaust their products produce than tobacco companies.

This is looking at things on a small scale, of course. I'd presume that vehicle exhausts have a much more significant effect on global problems than cigarette smoke.