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, which runs the New York City subway system.
I Tracked an NYC Subway Rider's Movements with an MTA ‘Feature’
https://www.404media.co/i-tracked-nyc-subway-rider-home-omny-mta/
11 Comments
otter@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 2y
What's the feature
seSvxR3ull7LHaEZFIjM@feddit.de · 57 pts · 2y
From the article
Pantherina@feddit.de · 10 pts · 2y
Credit cards are as secure as carrying your passwords around you on a piece of paper, and telling it loots of people always.
otter@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 2y
Thank you! I was on the bus and couldn't get the article to load
atomicpeach@pawb.social · 14 pts · 2y
From the article, you can get a detailed usage history of MTA transactions by simply supplying the credit card number (which they state can very often be bought on the dark web). The lack of identity confirmation to pull the report is the concern.
UnverifiedAPK@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y
You want to force people to show ID to use the subway?
Why is this info even public? That's the real issue.
hatchet@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 2y
Credit card info -> see timestamped transit transacting history, including station name (location)
yA3xAKQMbq@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y
What is reading
unscholarly_source@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y
Are we playing Jeopardy?
otter@lemmy.ca · -2 pts · 2y
:p
library_napper@monyet.cc · 8 pts · 2y
This is why I always pickup someone's old card from the ground in a subway station and reload it with cash.
We need more metros that use paper mag swipe cards that cost less than a penny to produce, so they can be recycled anonymously in this way. RFID metro cards are cancer