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Hacking the Toll Road

by Andrew McCaskey
The MIT article on hacking Toll Road transponders points out several issues for concern.

Many interference complaints to broadcast television in the 1950’s and 1960’s actually traced back to poor manufacturing and design. The same tendency to save a few cents on a part or omit code for at least some protection to script kiddie levels of hacking continue, apparently, in all sorts of designs for various computer and wireless devices.

The more serious effect, however, is the assumption by the public and the legal system that complexity equals security - that something that is obviously “high-tech” is going to be inherently stable, secure, and worthy of trust.

Bad guys seem to be on top of the technology, looking for any advantage to give them a momentary edge. For example, the value of the cloned Toll Road iPass ID is not the few dollars in stolen tolls, but the ability to “prove” that you and your vehicle were 30 miles away from the crime scene.
Anyone traveling who does not use a VPN on any open wifi node is asking for trouble. In places like O’Hare you will see scores of rogue “Free WiFi”, “OpenWiFi” just waiting for the unsuspecting to check a bank balance.

War driving in any neighborhood will detect many “encrypted” wifi networks, 90% of which are on WEP, known to be easily hacked for a number of years.

The bad guys know the tricks, but the public is the loser.

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