“Obviously this is a great fit for abusers,” an expert on domestic violence and cybersecurity said.

During all this monitoring, I wasn’t anywhere near the rider. I didn’t even need to see them with my own eyes. Instead, I was sitting inside an apartment, following their movements through a feature on a Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) website, which runs the New York City subway system.

  • @seSvxR3ull7LHaEZFIjMEnglish
    40•10 months ago

    With their consent, I had entered the rider’s credit card information—data that is often easy to buy from criminal marketplaces, or which might be trivial for an abusive partner to obtain—and punched that into the MTA site for OMNY, the subway’s contactless payments system. After a few seconds, the site churned out the rider’s travel history for the past 7 days, no other verification required.

    From the article

    • @Pantherina
      7•10 months ago

      Credit cards are as secure as carrying your passwords around you on a piece of paper, and telling it loots of people always.

    • OtterEnglish
      6•10 months ago

      Thank you! I was on the bus and couldn’t get the article to load