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Re: road toll transponder hacked
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dan@geer.org)
Wed Aug 27 10:54:50 2008
From: dan@geer.org
To: Bill Frantz <frantz@pwpconsult.com>
cc: Cryptography <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:40:01 PDT."
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Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:10:51 -0400
Bill Frantz writes, in part:
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| In the San Francisco Bay Area, they are using the transponder codes
| to measure how fast traffic is moving from place to place. They
| post the times to various destinations on the electric signs when
| there are no Amber alerts or other more important things to
| display. It is quite convenient, and they promise they don't use it
| to track people's trips.
|
Look for general tracking to appear everywhere.
Fast declining gasoline tax revenues will be
replaced with per-mile usage fees, i.e., every
major road becomes a toll road. Most likely
first in will be California and/or Oregon.
The relationship to this list may then be thin
excepting that the collection and handling of
such data remains of substantial interest. Of
course, everyone who carries a cell phone has
already decided that convenience trumps security,
at least the kind of security that says "they
can't misuse what they ain't got."
--dan
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