…During all this monitoring, I wasn’t anywhere near the rider. I didn’t even need to see them with my own eyes. Instead, I was sitting inside an apartment, following their movements through a feature on a Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) website…

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    1 year ago

    If they allow access without any other form of authentication, I wonder what kind of protections they have against brute forcing credit card numbers.

    You could pick up a recipe with the first and last digits and hammer away.

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      I wonder what kind of protections they have against brute forcing credit card numbers.

      I would imagine there aren’t any. Whenever a product or service is created, there’s little to no foresight, it’s all about the ease of profits and the eventual lawsuits that come afterwards are usually seen to be a small percentage of what they’ll make.