Three MIT students hacked the subway train ticketing system’s CharlieCard smartcards and the mag-stripe on its paper CharlieTickets and offer up open source tools they made while conducting their research, among other gaping holes. They were planning to do a talk on Anatomy of a Subway Hack at Defcon this past weekend. But a lawsuit by Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority on Friday afternoon had stopped them. You can still read their presentation here

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