Security theatre: Travel in Hungary, EU

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/25/hungarian_teenager_arrest_sparks_pro... Kid found a way to travel for free in Budapest. He filed a bug report. And was promptly arrested The tale started last week when an unnamed 18-year-old found that he was able to, when purchasing a ticket online, poke the BKK website in a particular way to modify the ticket's price and buy it at that new price. The BKK then held a press conference at which its CEO Kálmán Dab◈czi proudly announced they had caught a hacker and had filed an official complaint against him. For his part, the T-Systems' CEO Zoltán Kaszás has also been forced to apologize, especially after it was revealed the company is paid $1m a year to maintain the system and its security.