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Daily Debrief: Subway cards easy to hack
Created: 10/07/2008
Video description: If you ride the subway in Boston, Los Angeles, London, Amsterdam, or a handful of other cities worldwide, you're going to want to watch this Daily Debrief. CNET's Kara Tsuboi interviews senior writer Elinor Mills about these global transit systems' vulnerability to "hobby hackers" and what you can to do to keep your identification information safe.

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