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N.J. Man Proves E-ZPass Tracked Beyond Tolls
The driver rigged a toy cow to moo when the device was pinged.
Article by Tom Troncone
A New Jersey man hacked his E-ZPass reader so that a toy cow would moo every time the device was pinged, and posted a series of videos to YouTube showing the results, Forbes.com reported.
The video shows the cow mooing five times as the man, who was not identified but uses the nickname 'defconpukingmonkey' on YouTube, drives from Times Square to Madison Square Garden.
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The New York Department of Transportation told Forbes that the data gleaned from the E-ZPass tracking is for traffic management.
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