CDR: Re: RISKS: New Jersey shuts down E-ZPass statement site after security breached

4 Nov 2000


      At 7:35 PM -0800 11/3/00, Bill Stewart wrote:
...
the following pleasant article on privacy was on RISKS.
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 11:19:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: danny burstein 
Subject: EZ-Pass discovers risk of sending URLs instead of actual text
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- A security breach has forced New Jersey
   officials to temporarily shut down a service that allows E-ZPass users
   to get monthly statements via e-mail.
Reagoso said Monday that it wasn't hard to break into the system.
An act which is now ipso facto illegal under the "Illegal to Break, 
Analyze, or Reverse-Engineer a Security Program or System Act of 
2000."

"It's to help protect the children."


--Tim May
-- 
---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:----
Timothy C. May              | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money,
ComSec 3DES:   831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero
W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA  | knowledge, reputations, information markets,
"Cyphernomicon"             | black markets, collapse of governments.