Boston Subway Hack by MIT Student

Students of MIT are really incredible in technology as the abbreviation of MIT for Massachusetts Institute of Technology. What is the recent prove? You can see that some students from MIT have found the vulnerability in automated fare system at Subway in Boston. I have read the information from my Yahoo News about technology.

A federal judge ordered three college students to cancel a Sunday presentation at a computer hacker’s conference where they planned to show security flaws in the automated fare system used by Boston’s subway. The temporary restraining order, issued by a U.S. district judge in Massachusetts, prevented the Massachusetts Institute of Technology students from demonstrating at the Defcon conference in Las Vegas how to use the vulnerabilities to get free rides.

The Electronics Frontier Foundation, which is representing MIT students Zack Anderson, R.J. Ryan and Alessandro Chiesa, plans to fight the order, said Jennifer Granick, the group’s civil liberties director.

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority said in a complaint filed Friday that the students offered to show others how to use the hacks before giving the transit system a chance to fix the flaws. MIT is also named in the suit.

I think the young generation is being smarter than the old generation because of internet development which helps spreading of technology to the all citizens. There are many new ideas which coming out from the genius mind of young student. It’s great news instead of hearing about drugs abuse against young generation. The technology has been monopolized by young generation in this current time. Do you agree?

iPhone ‘Back Door’ Problem Exist

iphone iPhone Back Door Problem Exist
The term of nobody’s perfect is also can be implemented to the hi-tech product phenomenal product such as iPhone from Apple.

Yesterday, at Monday, in August 11, Steve Jobs, the Apple chief executive confirmed the existence of the incidentally bad thing which called “back door” which built into the latest iPhone software, one that can remove applications built into the device at the company’s whim. The news is according to an interview in Monday’s Wall Street Journal, the back door was added as a security measure.
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