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@GravelPieceOfSword@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years ago

Teens Hacked Boston Subway’s CharlieCard to Get Infinite Free Rides

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Teens Hacked Boston Subway’s CharlieCard to Get Infinite Free Rides

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@GravelPieceOfSword@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years ago
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Teens Hacked Boston Subway Cards to Get Infinite Free Rides—and This Time, Nobody Got Sued
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In 2008, Boston’s transit authority sued to stop MIT hackers from presenting at the Defcon hacker conference on how to get free subway rides. Today, four teens picked up where they left off.
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    19•2 years ago

    The MBTA sued some MIT students a while back when they discovered the same thing. So the MBTA hasn’t fixed this in over a decade.

    https://www.universalhub.com/2023/some-medford-kids-figured-out-how-hack

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      23•2 years ago

      If you had read the first paragraph, or even the subheader, you would have seen that the article covers that and that the kids were working off the 2008 research.

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      Yep, we must have read the same article or something… ;)

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