[SCADASEC] MIT/Charliecard hack

[wboyes at putman.net]

I'm sure that MBTA isn't thinking about that anymore. Look at
infrastructure cost rises over the past two decades. Heck, look at what it
cost to build the big dig. Not all of that was graft.

Walt

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At 5:32 PM -0500 8/10/08, wboyes at putman.net wrote:

> But as the FBI noted at the ACS Cyber Security Conference, the FBI will
be
> doing more investigating of hacks aimed at critical infrastructure. MBTA
> certainly qualifies as that

The MBTA operation may be critical infrastructure, but MBTA fare
collection is not.  A decade or two ago they even considered the
possibility of abolishing fare collection.
--
Larry Kilgallen
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