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Despite being over a decade old, these slides (and accompanying 2600 articles) still represent the best publicly-available research on the MetroCard
by devy 10y ago
Despite being over a decade old, these slides
(and accompanying 2600 articles) still represent
the best publicly-available research on the MetroCard format.
Isn't that an endorsement of Cubic Transportation Systems'[0][1] security by obscurity work quite well in this case?
[0]: https://youtu.be/YSmqwJmKh2E?t=1833 https://youtu.be/YSmqwJmKh2E?t=1833
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubic_Transportation_Systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubic_Transportation_Systems
- woodruffw 10y agoI think it's worth keeping in mind that that presentation (and accompanying papers) came out in the spring/summer of 2006. Google Patents didn't appear until December of that year [0], and the USPTO certainly didn't have an online search or API back then (it does now [1]). The information was always there, but it's only become easily accessible in the past few years. To me, that speaks tremendously towards Battaglia's research. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Patents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Patents [1]: http://assignment.uspto.gov/ http://assignment.uspto.gov/