College OTR: MIT

Hackers Laugh in MBTA's Face

Posted by Jessica Almanza08/20/2008 11:19 AM

Calling all Boston-area students, free rides on the MIT guys!

The badass Boston subway hackers got off easy. The three MIT students who hacked into the MBTA fare system were getting schooled last week but this week turned out to be a lot farer.

After hearing about the hackers’ plan to divulge top-secret system flaws to the nerds at Defcon, ...

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Latest comment by Anonymous: That is /not/ purpose what the MIT students were doing, to get free rides. For a systems security project they were researching the CharlieCard system which is used by the MBTA and realized there is a fatal flaw in t

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MIT Students Forced To Tell All

Posted by The Candle08/15/2008 09:00 AM

The MBTA Triple Threat is getting bogged down with more questions today. A federal judge ordered the three MIT hackers to supply the court with more answers. The MIT students hacked into MBTA fare systems and were rumored to be talking about revealing their plan's hairy details at well-known hacker convention, Defcon 16.

The MBTA took the rum...

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Latest comment by Anonymous: "hacking into the MBTA" is simply discovering a fatal flaw in the charliecard encryption system, which was very poorly designed.

Interestingly enough, they weren't going to divulge this information at DEFCON,

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