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+-   California's wireless road tolls easily hackable on Tuesday August 26 2008, @08:02AM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 26 2008, @08:02AM
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An anonymous reader writes "Nate Lawson, a researcher at RootLabs, has found a way to clone the wireless transponders used by the Bay Area FasTrak road toll system. This means you can copy the ID of another driver onto your own device and, as a result, travel for free while others foot the bill. Lawson also raises the interesting of using the FasTrak system to create false alibis, by overwriting one's own ID onto another driver's device before committing a crime. Luckily, Lawson wasn't sued before he could reveal his research, unlike those pesky MIT students."
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