December 22nd, 2008

Subway fare hackers to partner with transit agency

By Jordan Robertson, Associated Press

A trio of Massachusetts Institute of Technology students who found a way to hack into the Boston subway system's payment cards have agreed to partner with transit officials there to make the system more secure.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation announced the agreement Monday, two months after the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority dropped a lawsuit against the students, who were represented for free by the EFF, a civil-liberties group that frequently takes up cases involving security researchers and computer hackers.

Related Issues: Coders' Rights Project

Related Cases: MBTA v. Anderson

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