FBI Nabs Chicago Transit Authority Radio Hacker

Posted by timothy on Tuesday August 4, 2009 @04:25AM from the yeah-please-don't-touch-that-button-ok dept.

Wh15per writes "The Chicago FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested an individual for misusing Chicago Transit Authority radio systems. Marcel Carter, 20, is charged with violating a US code that forbids interference with transportation operators. A federal complaint alleges he began using a radio to transmit on CTA frequencies in June 2008, often interjecting comments during communications between the agency's control center and train operators. The CTA claims Carter's radio communications were never followed, and passengers were never in danger."

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Re:Pranks now felonies by Anonymous Coward · 2009-08-04 04:49 · Score: 0, Flamebait

In my youth, segregation was legal, and blacks and women could not vote. In my youth, we did not have the type of suicide terrorism we have now.
Times change and this is new area where there are terrorist and potential evildoers who aim for these soft targets, so get over it.
Now that I've utterly smashed and destroyed your idiotic drivel, I expect moderators to mod you to oblivion for being such a twit.