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With Lawsuit Settled, Hackers Working With MBTA

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the how-it-should-be dept.

narramissic writes "The three MIT students who were sued earlier this year by the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority for planning to show at Defcon how they had had reverse engineered the magnetic stripe tickets and smartcards said Monday that they are now working to make the Boston transit system more secure. 'I'm really glad to have it behind me. I think this is really what should have happened from the start,' said Zack Anderson, one of the students sued by the MBTA."

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  1. Re:What's this? by Sleepy · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Wow, what a gleaming white fantasy world you must live in. I had to check if you were a new account - thought you were trolling.
    I bet you don't mind people reading your mail or medical records, or having your brick-and-mortar credit card transactions zipped over un-encrypted wireless networks...