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RE: road toll transponder hacked
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mheyman@gmail.com)
Tue Aug 26 10:23:30 2008
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:15:36 -0400
From: "mheyman@gmail.com" <mheyman@gmail.com>
To: Cryptography <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
In-Reply-To: <5c8fcb9c0808260655k3313c225m87b054dc76ea37d7@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
>
> http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/21301/?a=f
>
>From the article: "other toll systems, like E-Z Pass and I-Pass, need
to be looked at too"
A couple years ago I got a letter from E-Z Pass a few days after I
used my transponder in my new car without registering my new car. They
gave me a grace period to register before making me pay some sort of
penalty.
So, I believe, at least for E-Z Pass, the attack would have to include
cloning the license plate and pictures may still be available whenever
a victim realizes they have been charged for trips they did not take.
-Michael Heyman
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