some german guy demonstrated it years ago with the gen 1 cards

is this why they made this "version 2" thing lately?

v2 and later have been out for years

I only have v2

if it doesn't have a chip it's v1

said german was able to decrypt the contents of the card and add as much money as he wanted

since it was still stored on the card back then

and the encryption was piss-poor

Just checked

I have an EasyCard V2 with a chip

now it's just on a server so even if you have a v1 you can't modify it to have more money

you might be able to impersonate another v1 card though, i dunno

So yuou're saying all those busses in the middle of nowhere, all taxis etc have an active internet connection that checks the balance?

I've thought about that and I can only assume it's yes or it's hybrid

there was a story a few years back about how someone was arrested for falsifying the balance on cards

might have been done with v1 cards

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At the 27th annual German Chaos Communication Congress hacker conference ("27C3") in 2010, German free software programmer Harald Welte showed that it is possible to artificially change the amount of money stored on a first-generation EasyCard —based on the MIFARE Classic chip— using nothing more than a USB RFID reader and a laptop computer running open source software. Welte denounced the system for its poor choice of cipher and lack of user authentication. He was able to map out and manipulate the card's internal format in 2 days on a trip in Taiwan.[22]

However, hacking the EasyCard remains illegal, and in September 2011 a 24-year-old engineer was arrested on suspicion of fraudulently using a hacked EasyCard.[23]
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yes

it might be that the mobile readers trust a balance on the card and then it's all settled afterwards

the card readers on buses fail occasionally so that might be a connectivity issue

either to the servers or just a card reading issue

or the readers actually all have GSM

Wouldn't surprise me much

i dunno, cell connectivity in taiwan is everywhere

so yeah

exactly

it wouldn't really be an issue

never managed to find a place without at least 3G

how do you say "cheats" or "hacks" in the context of video games in chinese?

china numba one

https://www.facebook.com/BabyBoomersWithAsianWives/

Im beggining to think you follow a certain page that I also follow

Could be

There's a man outside our apartments screaming asking people to sell their hair

in chinese: "BUYING HAIR! WILL GIVE CASH ON SPOT! COME SELL YOUR HAIR"

🤔

hue

fucking china

I tried to but they only take 5 inches and above for hair

Thats what she said

must be making soy sauce