Imagine having a well-designed payment app for your car's infotainment system that let you effortlessly pay for parking, road tolls, EV charging, or refueling.
-- Ars Technica (@arstechnica.com) April 8, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I don't. That little bit of time stopped at the toll booth gives you a breather. But what do I know.
@#2 ... In Socal you only need one device for all the various county and state tolls. ...
Here in the Northeast, it is E-ZPass.
I never got one because of ...
E-ZPass Is the Best Tracking Device That's Already in Your Car (2013)
gizmodo.com
... E-ZPass is probably the best thing that's ever happened to paying tolls. Those plastic funnels you toss coins into are a close second. But E-ZPass has a bonus feature. It can be used to track you everywhere you go.
E-ZPass uses RFID. It's cool tech, but hackable and trackable in ways that the companies who use it don't really want anyone to talk about. E-ZPass RFID tags, for instance, can be scanned in plenty of places that aren't tollbooths. A hacker known only as "Puking Monkey" has shown that it happens all the time around the streets of NYC, and talked about his findings at DEFCON.
To test how often his E-ZPass RFID tag was getting polled, Puking Monkey wired a little mooing cow toy into the circuit so it would warn him whenever something happened. And in a short drive around Manhattan, PM found his cow mooing an awful lot for no immediately discernible reason. ...
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