Submission + - Teens Hacked Boston Subway Cards to Get Infinite Free Ridesâ"and This Time, (wired.com)
UnCivil Liberty writes: Following in the footsteps of three MIT students who were previously gagged from presenting their findings at Defcon 2008 (previous Slashdot coverage here: https://yro.slashdot.org/story... here: https://hardware.slashdot.org/... and here: https://it.slashdot.org/story/... ), two Bay State teens built on their work in hacking Boston's MBTA CharlieCard system, reverse engineering them and presenting at this year's Defcon without interference.
'the four teens extended other research done by the 2008 hacker team to fully reverse engineer the CharlieCard, the RFID touchless smart cards the MBTA uses today. The hackers can now add any amount of money to one of these cards or invisibly designate it a discounted student card, a senior card, or even an MBTA employee card that gives unlimited free rides. âoeYou name it, we can make it,â says Campbell.'
'the four teens extended other research done by the 2008 hacker team to fully reverse engineer the CharlieCard, the RFID touchless smart cards the MBTA uses today. The hackers can now add any amount of money to one of these cards or invisibly designate it a discounted student card, a senior card, or even an MBTA employee card that gives unlimited free rides. âoeYou name it, we can make it,â says Campbell.'
