Transit agency to work with hackers who found vulns

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Lukin Brewer

Predictions for future headlines: #

Posted Tuesday 23rd December 2008 09:29 GMT

Student hackers close vulns in Mifare

- "All's well that ends well," says Transit Authority, "but next time don't go public. Capisce?"

Student hackers die in ticket barrier testing related tragedy.

- Transit Authority: "They had no honour, and God was watching."

p.s. Name that film.

Brian

@Lukin Brewer #

Posted Tuesday 23rd December 2008 12:00 GMT

A Few Good Men?

Jerome

CharlieCard? #

Posted Tuesday 23rd December 2008 14:21 GMT

Seriously? You couldn't make this shit up.

Anonymous Coward

Another bunch of tosser students #

Posted Tuesday 23rd December 2008 16:47 GMT

These know-it-all students who soon discover they know very little about how the real world ticks are finally getting an introduction into the real world. Maybe now they understand that embarrassing a company for its poor level of security is not the best way to fix the problem.... but hey, we all know they were really after fame and fortune at some silly defcon.

Lukin Brewer

@brian #

Posted Wednesday 24th December 2008 20:40 GMT

Yep!

@AC

Indeed, the Real World (TM), where corporations selling/nursing expensive but faulty products/systems prefer to shoot down any messengers of doom as a short-term fix. Sure, the researchers wanted to get some kudos in the white-hat community, just as the company wanted not to have to admit that their equipment was less than fit for purpose, or develop and roll out a fix. Or to put it another way:

It's not my job to run the train, the whistle I can't blow,

It's not my job to tell how far the train's allowed to go,

It's not my job to let off steam, nor even clang the bell,

But watch the damned thing jump the tracks and see who catches Hell!