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With Lawsuit Settled, Hackers Working With MBTA 90

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday December 22, 2008 @06:41PM from the how-it-should-be dept.

narramissic writes "The three MIT students who were sued earlier this year by the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority for planning to show at Defcon how they had had reverse engineered the magnetic stripe tickets and smartcards said Monday that they are now working to make the Boston transit system more secure. 'I'm really glad to have it behind me. I think this is really what should have happened from the start,' said Zack Anderson, one of the students sued by the MBTA."

Comment Re:Difference between Community and Official. (Score 2, Informative) 322

by Windsurfer on Wednesday April 14, 2004 @08:32PM (#8865269) Attached to: Mandrakelinux 10 Official Released

Thus it appears that at least one of the differences between Communty and Official is that the latter contains proprietary software and drivers that need not and cannot be distributed pursuant to the GPL or other Open Source license.

Not quite. There are two "editions" of both Community and Official, the Download edition (available to everyone) and the Powerpack edition (only available to silver members and above, and contaning the proprietary software you mentioned). So everyone will be able to get Community Download and Official Download (in a few weeks), but only silver members and above can get Community Powerpack and Official Powerpack.

As others have pointed out, the difference between Community and Official is that Community was released as a kind of final, final release candidate, and once Mandrake were happy, they then released Official.

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