March 25, 2008
Boston Subway fare cards cracked.
Just came across this story by way of SF writer Charles Stross's blog:
Wireless subway cards cracked25 Mar 2008 12:04 PM | Send comments to comments@techpopuli.netRiders of Boston's T and London's Tube take note - the prepaid cards you use to pay subway fares have been cracked.
Karsten Nohl, a computer science researcher at the University of Virginia, claims to have broken the encryption used by the RFID (radio frequency identification) chip found in the Charlie Card on the Boston T subway system and in the Oyster Card on the London Underground.