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Hacking the hack - missed opportunity or just doing the right thing?
Posted on August 11, 2008
Late last week, newly-famed MIT students Zack Anderson, R.J. Ryan and Alessandro Chiesa were court-ordered to cancel their Sunday presentation entitled Anatomy of a Subway Hack at DEF CON , the world s largest hacker conference. The banned presentation highlighted security weaknesses in the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority s fare system that would potentially allow enterprising individuals with the appropriate technology and p...
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