Security theatre: Travel in Hungary, EU

[Zenaan Harkness]

On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 12:56:31PM +0300, Georgi Guninski wrote:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/25/hungarian_teenager_arrest_sparks_protests/
> 
> 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.

Well, they're maintaining the security, just at a relatively low SLA
(Service Level Agreement) - the government is arguably not getting
particularly good value for money, unless there's some under the
table graft going on (nah, that would almost never happen in a
democracy) in which case "the government" is getting excellent value
for money - most of that value straight back into the hand.