[PRCo] Re: Fwd: Courts Muzzles Hackers Who Wanted To Explain How To Get Free Subway Rides

[Richard Allman]

are MTA's counts high or low? On Light Rail, I suspect it sould be 
either-they have not a clue!
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From: "Schneider Fred" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 2:06 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Fwd: Courts Muzzles Hackers Who Wanted To Explain How To 
Get Free Subway Rides


> You want to have some fun John?
>
> Lets get a gang of people to ride the Baltimore MTA light rail and
> subway and count passengers to see just how distorted their passenger
> counts are.   I'll bet we can get arrested for doing that.
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> On Aug 12, 2008, at 8:32 AM, John Swindler wrote:
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>> But what else would you expect from T management?  I can guarentee
>> you that these students are not the only people capable of
>> discovering the security flaw.  Why not: 'thank you for bringing
>> this flaw to our attention - now how can we correct it??  Instead
>> it looks like 'lets shoot the messenger'.
>>
>> Isn't this the same management that goes ballistic when a camera
>> appears near their property?
>>
>> I bet Derrick could provide us with a long list of instances in the
>> computer field where companies don't want to recognize and deal
>> with flaws in their software.
>>
>> Cheers
>> John
>>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org> From:
>>> fwschneider at comcast.net> Subject: [PRCo] Fwd: Courts Muzzles
>>> Hackers Who Wanted To Explain How To Get Free Subway Rides> Date:
>>> Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:04:10 -0400> > Some of you probably have
>>> already seen this gem.....> > > Subject: Courts Muzzles Hackers
>>> Who Wanted To Explain How To Get > > Free Subway Rides> >> > CTA
>>> is fortunate MIT is not in Chicago.> > http://www.alleyinsider.com/
>>> 2008/8/courts-muzzles-hackers-who- > > wanted-to-explain-how-get-
>>> free-subway-rides> >> > > >
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