{"id":134,"date":"2005-04-10T17:00:44","date_gmt":"2005-04-10T22:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2005\/04\/10\/evil-sabotage-plans\/"},"modified":"2005-09-23T12:59:53","modified_gmt":"2005-09-23T19:59:53","slug":"evil-sabotage-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/10\/evil-sabotage-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Evil Sabotage Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wbz1030.com\/apnational\/High-TechSubway-aa\/resources_news_html\">WBZ News<\/a><br \/>\nCentury-old New York City subway gets a computerized facelift<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;They&#8217;re going to be sending signals via radio waves,&#8221; said Councilman Lewis Fidler, a Democrat from Brooklyn. &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to find out that someone hacks into the system and makes a train disappear and another train rams into it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Such a scenario is unlikely, said Tom Sullivan, an independent transit consultant with Transportation Systems Design in Oakland, Calif., who helped design the L-line upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>The data carried on radio waves are encrypted, so only an internal leak could compromise its security, he said. Though it&#8217;s possible to jam the radio signal, he said, that would only make the train stop.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So a bad person with a couple (or a couple hundred) $50 jamming radios in the right locations could completely paralyze the NYC subways system. Cool&#8230; err.. that&#8217;s awful! err&#8230; kew1. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WBZ News Century-old New York City subway gets a computerized facelift &#8220;They&#8217;re going to be sending signals via radio waves,&#8221; said Councilman Lewis Fidler, a Democrat from Brooklyn. &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to find out that someone hacks into the system and makes a train disappear and another train rams into it.&#8221; Such a scenario is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-sources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}