CDR: RISKS: New Jersey shuts down E-ZPass statement site after security breached
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 <dannyb@panix.com> 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.
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