Black Hat 2009: How to hack a parking meter

At Black Hat this week, security researchers showed how a technically savvy hacker can make a fake payment card that allows unlimited free parking on San Francisco's smart parking meter system

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    How to hack a San Francisco parking meter

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    Meter service

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    Inside the meter

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    Check out those chips

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    Figuring out how the transaction works

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    Another look at the shim

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    Paying for a lot of parking time

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    The man with the grand idea

Another look at the shim

Another view of the custom shim used to read the smart card transaction, complete with Joe Grand's Grand Idea Studio logo.

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July 30, 2009

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