{"id":1171094,"date":"2023-08-12T16:14:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T20:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1171094"},"modified":"2023-08-12T16:14:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T20:14:00","slug":"teens-hacked-boston-subway-cards-for-infinite-free-rides-and-this-time-nobody-got-sued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1171094","title":{"rendered":"Teens Hacked Boston Subway Cards For Infinite Free Rides, and This Time Nobody Got Sued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long-time Slashdot reader UnCivil Liberty writes:<\/p>\n<p>Following in the footsteps of three MIT students who were previously gagged from presenting their findings at Defcon 2008 are two Massachusetts teens (who presented at this year&#8217;s Defcon without interference). <\/p>\n<p>The four teens extended other research done by the 2008 hacker team to fully reverse engineer the &#8220;CharlieCard,&#8221; the RFID touchless smart card used by Boston&#8217;s public transit system. 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 them unlimited free rides. &#8220;You name it, we can make it,&#8221; says Campbell.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<div class=\"share_submission\" style=\"position:relative\">\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Teens+Hacked+Boston+Subway+Cards+For+Infinite+Free+Rides%2C+and+This+Time+Nobody+Got+Sued%3A+https%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F23%2F08%2F12%2F1931247%2F%3Futm_source%3Dtwitter%26utm_medium%3Dtwitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/twitter_icon_large-466.png\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F23%2F08%2F12%2F1931247%2Fteens-hacked-boston-subway-cards-for-infinite-free-rides-and-this-time-nobody-got-sued%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/facebook_icon_large-234.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tech.slashdot.org\/story\/23\/08\/12\/1931247\/teens-hacked-boston-subway-cards-for-infinite-free-rides-and-this-time-nobody-got-sued?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\">Read more of this story<\/a> at Slashdot.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Slashdot &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.slashdot.org\/story\/23\/08\/12\/1931247\/teens-hacked-boston-subway-cards-for-infinite-free-rides-and-this-time-nobody-got-sued?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Teens Hacked Boston Subway Cards For Infinite Free Rides, and This Time Nobody Got Sued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-time Slashdot reader UnCivil Liberty writes: Following in the footsteps of three MIT students who were previously gagged from presenting their findings at Defcon 2008 are two Massachusetts teens (who presented at this year&#8217;s Defcon without interference). The four teens &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1171094\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1171095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,110],"tags":[100],"class_list":["post-1171094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slashdot","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-slashdot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1171094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1171095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1171094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1171094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1171094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}