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Re: Estimated 10 million dollars lost in parking meter fraud
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Muir)
Tue Apr 22 14:01:14 2008
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:25:28 -0300
From: James Muir <jamuir@cs.smu.ca>
In-reply-to: <25630a120804211135i4b8f64ecjdeba395325a35615@mail.gmail.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
michael taylor wrote:
> <http://www.torontosun.com/News/TorontoAndGTA/2008/04/18/5320936-sun.html>
>
> The city is playing a $10M game of catchup to stymie thieves using
> bogus credit cards to get free parking
An assuming read. The article mentions the "Europark Card"; you buy it
online for $15 (the web site is still up) and it gets you free parking
in various cities in Australia, US, and Canada. Here is a link to a
demo video on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfoWDQUR4sk
Unlike the recent Oyster Card crack (London, UK), Toronto's "free"
parking problem does not seem to have been caused by bad cryptography --
at least, there is no mention of cryptography in the article. It goes
to show that there's more to systems security than just crypto.
-James
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