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ropeguru
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Hollywood, FL
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| Re: What if they get hacked? said by wifi4milez  :802.11g is MUCH more familiar to people, and therefore MUCH easier to hack than cellular. I bet some kids are going to hack them just for fun..... My guess is that they will just be completely stolen and not hacked.
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| Network Guy
join:2000-08-25
New York | Umm.. Script kiddies would need to hack the encryption not the transport method. I'd hope those meters are using WPA-PSK at the very least.
Whoever vendor that thought of this is a genius AFAIK. | |
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Pittsburgh, PA
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| Re: What if they get hacked? Knowing that a government entity is involved...It will probably be WEP.
Nope, not using my credit card on that machine. | |
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| Re: What if they get hacked? said by Ammler :Knowing that a government entity is involved...It will probably be WEP. Nope, not using my credit card on that machine. Yes, definitely, seeing as all credit cards issued make you responsible for zero fradulent charges. It would be unthinkable to transmit your credit card info through a method that could potentially expose it to people who could copy it.
You know every time you give your credit card to a waiter at a restaurant, you run the risk of them having a card skimmer in their pocket, right?
Just checking. | |
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fartness
Computersoc Dot Com
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clubs: | Re: What if they get hacked? Or they can simply copy your card info down on paper. | |
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fartness
Computersoc Dot Com
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clubs: | Re: What if they get hacked? One place I worked at, we had to go in a little back closet to do the cards. Perfect if someone wanted to do that. | |
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Michieru
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Miami, FL
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| Same people who cry wolf over fraud make it easier for fraud to occur. I liked the idea of simply having it be solar powered. But this is just useless in so many ways. Kind of like those billboards which are actually huge screens which only display an image and 10 seconds later rolls back to another. Sure more ads on the same billboard but the electricity to run that huge screen makes it worthless. Not only that it can get more easily damaged because it's out in the open. | |
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fartness
Computersoc Dot Com
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Look Outside
clubs: | I learned in my wireless class how to jam a signal with ease. | |
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dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
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join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
| said by wifi4milez :802.11g is MUCH more familiar to people, and therefore MUCH easier to hack than cellular. I bet some kids are going to hack them just for fun..... "WooHoo i can park here for 2,147,000,000 minutes. YAY!
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| | port9
join:2006-07-15
Cordova, TN | Re: What if they get hacked? More like woohoo now i can park her for 31337 min. | |
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| jarosoup
join:2003-01-14 | Most Internet credit card machines use a secure connection (SSL) to pass on the data...hacking (sniffing really) isn't going to get them much. | |
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moonpuppy
join:2000-08-21
Glen Burnie, MD | If only..... ...they could keep proper time now. | |
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mr sean
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| Just one more reason... ...I moved within walking distance of my job.
And the light rail.
I hate Houston driving and parking with a fair degree of passion.
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Kxpuc
join:2004-05-04
Houston, TX
| Re: Just one more reason... said by mr sean :...I moved within walking distance of my job. And the light rail. I hate Houston driving and parking with a fair degree of passion. you must be one of those "signaling" ppl are ya i've heard about that visit/move to Houston. probably why there's always a over turned truck on I-10, 610 and I-45 | |
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mr sean
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| Re: Just one more reason... After 30 years I've decided only the weather is worse than the traffic.
And why is it we get wireless parking meters, but not a reasonably priced wireless network?
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join:2004-05-04
Houston, TX
| Re: Just one more reason... said by mr sean :After 30 years I've decided only the weather is worse than the traffic. And why is it we get wireless parking meters, but not a reasonably priced wireless network? same reason Austin and San An gets tech and internet speed upgrades long before we even see anything here and population Austin and San Antonio 1.25 Mill each. yet we have shy of twice their population (more if you count the towns around here that call themselves Houston sometimes) and get parking meters ^_^ | |
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| Re: Just one more reason... But we do get the Death Star and TW/Comcast sleeping double in a single bed.
All our bandwidth belong to Duopoly!
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GlennAllen
join:2002-11-17
Richmond, VA | As far as payment goes... I'd rather use a Park-by-Phone system - more convenient, too. | |
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Mchart
Super Joe
join:2004-01-21
Gurnee, IL | Re: As far as payment goes... In Aspen Colorado their machines accept credit card, and a 'gift card' type thing you can buy to use on them. Not sure how that is done though. | |
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Transmaster
Don't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
join:2001-06-20
Cheyenne, WY
| Well here it is...... »www.8d.com/8DAPMS_ONE%20PAGER.pdf
Looks like you will be able to do a whole bunch more with them then just using them as a parking meters.
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AnonProxy
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All your meters are belong to us!
They set us up a parking ticket | |
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jamesv
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Austin, TX
| Interference? How will they deal with situations where the building the meter is in front of has an access point on the same frequency and interferes with the meter? Remember that the city can't regulate 9-2.11b usage or require others to quit using 802.11b even if it interferes with the meter. | |
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RangerTX
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Los Angeles, CA | how long before it get hacked being that will be g standard, i will say that in first 1 hour this system will be hacked. | |
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Nation's First Wi-Fi....Parking Meters?
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Care to read the article?