And if the black hats are the owners and contractors? What then?
You have fraud of a different kind. The secret is now about securing a payola system rather than securing the public interest. All this first ammendment BS becomes a red herring. If the public's interest was at stake, why did the MBTA do nothing except try to hush the MIT students?
Because somebody in the MBTA was making bank on this "flaw", that's why. Several people on this forum have pointed out that the flaws are way out of step with the security of other systems. How did this system get put into place in this day and age? Payola, that's how.
The students are not the problem.
Follow the money.....
(I'm reposting cause I noticed my post as "anonymous coward"! Not me!)
I don't agree entirely. When the problem is with a public entity, especially government, the truth should be shouted from the rooftops. Loudly! The founding fathers put the rights to free speech and free press and the right to bear arms FIRST in the list for the reason that that is our only protection from government corruption.
That's right people, corruption. That should be our first thought when such a dismal system is implemented. The founding fathers knew all about how government payola schemes worked. They knew what laws made such corruption possible. So they made FREE SPEECH a TOP priority when they wrote the constitution.
Even if the truth hurts, it only hurts for a short while. You have to ask yourself if it's worth the pain AFTER you know it. But you cannot hide from it forever. Prior restraint is the nemesis of freedom. It sets up a mechanism for hiding the truth under the cloak of public interest. Nothing could be further from the public interest!
MBTA is hiding more than just a flawed system. They are hiding the fact that it is flawed badly and quite possibly BY DESIGN.
This system is flawed both externally in the ticket handling and INTERNALLY in the money handling!!! Who benefits from these flaws?
I smell a rat and it ain't at MIT!
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And if the black hats are the owners and contractors? What then?
You have fraud of a different kind. The secret is now about securing a payola system rather than securing the public interest. All this first ammendment BS becomes a red herring. If the public's interest was at stake, why did the MBTA do nothing except try to hush the MIT students?
Because somebody in the MBTA was making bank on this "flaw", that's why. Several people on this forum have pointed out that the flaws are way out of step with the security of other systems. How did this system get put into place in this day and age? Payola, that's how.
The students are not the problem. Follow the money.....
(I'm reposting cause I noticed my post as "anonymous coward"! Not me!) I don't agree entirely. When the problem is with a public entity, especially government, the truth should be shouted from the rooftops. Loudly! The founding fathers put the rights to free speech and free press and the right to bear arms FIRST in the list for the reason that that is our only protection from government corruption. That's right people, corruption. That should be our first thought when such a dismal system is implemented. The founding fathers knew all about how government payola schemes worked. They knew what laws made such corruption possible. So they made FREE SPEECH a TOP priority when they wrote the constitution. Even if the truth hurts, it only hurts for a short while. You have to ask yourself if it's worth the pain AFTER you know it. But you cannot hide from it forever. Prior restraint is the nemesis of freedom. It sets up a mechanism for hiding the truth under the cloak of public interest. Nothing could be further from the public interest! MBTA is hiding more than just a flawed system. They are hiding the fact that it is flawed badly and quite possibly BY DESIGN. This system is flawed both externally in the ticket handling and INTERNALLY in the money handling!!! Who benefits from these flaws? I smell a rat and it ain't at MIT!