unfit news for California drivers ( me ) that use Fastrak ( me ) to get preceding toll road and bridges fast ( me ) . Hackaday reports that a surety researcher named Nate Lawson presented information at the Black Hat group discussion in Vegas that demonstrated that the tags perform no authentication whatsoever , entail a dandy with a lecturer can go around a parking lot and understand the IDs of every Fastrak transponder there . Even worse , there ’s unbolted over - the - air upgrades , so that same guy can overwrite tags at will , mess things up for everyone .
How do we fix this system ? Here ’s the job : the system is defined by California law of nature . An update to the way thing are done would take legislative natural process . [ Nate ] suggested one possible check that could be implemented to determine if the system was being exploited at this meter : When a shred read fails now , the system carry a picture of your licence scale so a homo can influence what account it belong to . The system could be updated to randomly take photos of gondola that were reading correctly just to check that the ID belong to the car figure .
And from the audio of it , it ’s pretty difficult to fix . [ Hackaday ]
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