NYT had a front page story yesterday on the HOPE meet. Featuring hack of NYC's Metrocard, with wry commentary on new adventures "underground." A quote: Bruce Schneier, a highly regarded cryptography expert who spoke at the conference, said experience bad taught him that hackers often understood computer systems better than the engineers who designed them. "Hackers just have a much more holistic view," he said. Mr. Schneier, who is a consultant to Cubic on the next-generation Metrocard, said he believes someone will inevitably figure out a hack. "I believe that, fundamentally, a system as complicated as the Metrocard cannot be absolutely secure," he said. --------- See full report at: http://jya.com/beyond-hope2.htm Aptly, with Bruce's emphasis at HOPE on the need for laws to punish computer criminals and to close the global jurisdictional gap so there's no refuge for outlaws, there's Markoff's report yesterday on a petition to the FCC opposing the FBI's digital wiretap plan: http://jya.com/tap-opp.htm