Saturday December 29, 2007

Man Hacks Cab

So people are hacking into everything these days, from MP3 players to video game consoles to ?cabs? That's right, with the new initiative in New York to add high tech equipment to all of the cabs on the street, even the back seat of a car is no longer immune.

Using his cell phone camera Chasen documented how he was able to open Internet Explorer using the touch-sensitive screen. He was then able to use a Sprint card listed on the monitor to get a dial-up connection giving him full administrative access to the monitor's operating system.