Parking woes
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 7:43 amToronto is a bitch of a place to park at the best of times, but it seems that any automated municipal parking lot can be easily had thanks to a design flaw in the ticket machines.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=450-4q6Doh0
Apparently, this has been going on for years, and the favorite hack tool is an expired credit card. The machine is incapable of differentiating a valid card from an expired one.
Damn, why am I always the last to know?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=450-4q6Doh0
Apparently, this has been going on for years, and the favorite hack tool is an expired credit card. The machine is incapable of differentiating a valid card from an expired one.
Damn, why am I always the last to know?
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