CDR: Re: RISKS: New Jersey shuts down E-ZPass statement site after security breached
Tim May
tcmay at got.net
Sat Nov 4 09:06:13 PST 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 <dannyb at 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
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