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A new documentary at the Little Roxie is putting a whole new meaning on being a “transit buff.” Off the Rails tells the true story of Darius McCollum, “a man with Asperger’s syndrome whose overwhelming love of transit has landed him in jail 32 times for impersonating New York City bus drivers and subway conductors and driving their routes.”

Running Muni Diaries means that we have met a lot of people who love public transit so much that they can name all the different vehicles in a Muni fleet. But McCollum’s obsession with public transportation goes way beyond any transit geek we know. The documentary follows McCollum through his first time stealing a bus at age 15 to a complicated journey of transit obsession that took over his life.

You can see Off the Rails at the cozy and delightful Little Roxie until this Thursday, Dec. 29.

Photo credit: Off the Rails

Karma is a bitch. The hackers who infiltrated SFMTA’s computer system last weekend got hacked themselves, according to this Forbes story. After the Forbes reporter contacted the hacker via the email address in the hacker’s error message display, the reporter received a response from someone who claims to have taken over access of the account to turn the ransomware hackers over to the FBI.

The ransomware hackers had shown this message on Muni’s computer screens: “You Hacked, ALL Data Encrypted. Contact For Key(cryptom27@yandex.com)ID:681 ,Enter.” This allowed reporters to contact the hackers, and now the FBI is on the case, according to the Examiner.

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