Getting Free Rides on the Boston Subway....

ganesh

I recently came across this article which tried to analyze the legal repercussions of the actions of some MIT students in exposing the vulnerabilities of the Boston subway ticketing system:

http://blogs.wsj.com/biztech/2008/08/11/responsible-disclosure-judge-gags-student-hackers/

Rather than actually encouraging the students for discovering the loophole and taking steps to rectify the vulnerability, the subway authorities have gone ahead and prosecuted the students! What is your opinion on this? Let us use this thread to discuss our viewpoints with fellow Frihosters.

brokenadvice

The student's probably should have notified the transport authority before going public with the data. Even letting out word that the systems are hackable before telling the transit authority allows the chance for malicious hackers to do some actual damage.

lagoon

Something like this happened with the Oyster card system on the London Underground. Mr. Boris has cancelled all contracts related to it.

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brokenadvice

Still, After someone recently announced that there was a huge bug in DNS, somebody else figured out how to exploit it separate from the first person, who was holding off on releasing the 'sploit. Sure a real hacker could have found it alone, but it definitely sped up the black hat searching.

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