http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/08/11/mit-students-who-hacked-boston-subway-silenced-report-gets-out-anyway/ 80beats is DISCOVER\'s news aggregator, weaving together the choicest tidbits from the best articles covering the day\'s most compelling topics. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:44:03 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/08/11/mit-students-who-hacked-boston-subway-silenced-report-gets-out-anyway/comment-page-1/#comment-2700 Charles Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:54:08 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/08/11/mit-students-who-hacked-boston-subway-silenced-report-gets-out-anyway/#comment-2700 Ever since the MBTA filed the lawsuit which put the vulnerability assessment into the public domain, I've been more interested than ever in how CharlieCards and CharlieTickets work. The MBTA brought far more publicity to their grave vulnerabilities than the talk at DEF CON would have. The MBTA made a poor legal and business decision to stop the talk. Ever since the MBTA filed the lawsuit which put the vulnerability assessment into the public domain, I’ve been more interested than ever in how CharlieCards and CharlieTickets work. The MBTA brought far more publicity to their grave vulnerabilities than the talk at DEF CON would have. The MBTA made a poor legal and business decision to stop the talk.

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