Aug. 23, 2023, 10:10 p.m. | DEFCONConference

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Who likes paying to ride the subway? Sure, you could hop the fare gates, but that can be athletically challenging and simply isn’t cool enough for our tastes. What’s a mischievous and miserly rider to do, then? Hack the fare system of course!

In this talk we'll walk you through how we, four high school students and cybersecurity noobs became the first to fully reverse engineer Boston’s CharlieCard fare system and earn ourselves free rides for life… or at least …

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