MIT Students Hacked Boston Subway

August 22, 2008 Posted by Admin Labels: , ,

Three MIT graduates ( Zack Anderson, R.J. Ryan and Alessandro Chiesa ) planned a scheme to hack Boston's transit payment system. They have managed to reprogram the cards to increase their credit balance, thus allowing them to ride for free.

Of course, being MIT students, they have decided to write up their prank on academic newspaper. But the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) took it to the courts, citing computer fraud, and asking for time to fix the system before the paper was presented.

MBTA lost. Judge George O'Toole ruled that "presenting an academic paper would not violate computer fraud laws."

The students went to receice "top marks" for their paper, from which we can conclude the following: RFID is very insecure, and MIT is awesome.!

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