Portrait of MIT students who found flaws in MBTA security

This is awesome… The three MIT students who exposed flaws in the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) fare-collection system — and were sued by the MBTA right before the DEFCON 2008 security conference to prevent them going public with those flaws — have settled the lawsuit and are now in talks with the Boston subway on how to improve the transit card systems’ securityмебели.

I photographed them back in August around MIT. Here, they’re in front of a blackboard depicting the key vulnerability in how the CharlieTicket fare card stores the dollar value of the card.

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