A weekly FM radio show and podcast from the creators of 2600: The Hacker Quarterly.
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This grainy photo of Jim (then known as Red Balaklava) speaking at @[email protected] graced the front page of the New York Times on August 11, 1997, accompanying an article about Jim's and others' thoughts on the MetroCard.
The article can still be read at https://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/11/nyregion/what-galls-a-hacker-most-the-metrocard.html .
Computer hackers, led by renegade New York City Transit Authority token clerk, hold convention in SoHo to discuss new transit Metrocard and $700 million Transit Authority computer that makes it work; say they are really concerned about privacy and not free rides, since card allows Authority to compile information on travel habits of users; card is of particular interest to hackers since it is not, like older fare cards elsewhere whose security systems have been penetrated, simply receptacle for value; appears to have account stored in main computer, which communicates via telephone lines and radio signals with subway stations and buses; photos (M)
