Weekend Photos: BART Edition

Space Station 5
Photo by Jef Poskanzer

Remember what BART looks like when it’s not packed with protesters and riot police? Yeah, me neither. Local coverage of the protests has been comprehensive — check out SF Appeal’s round up. What are people outside of San Francisco saying about it? Here’s a good dose of BART news making national headlines.

  • Talk of the Nation episode all about new technology and free speech (NPR)
  • Anonymous to BART: We Hack, We Organize, Too (The New York Times)
  • Three Security Lessons From BART Anonymous Breach (Information Week)
  • FCC Reviews SF Subway Cell Shutdown (CNET)
  • Phone Cutoff Stirs Worry About Limit on Speech (Wall Street Journal)
  • San Francisco BART leak highlights hackers ethics split (Washington Post)
  • An oldie but still ok: Time Magazine’s Most Memorable Hacking Moments (Time)

The events of the last week and a half certainly provide an interesting and important discussion on technology, the law, and our expectations and rights. But the conversation seems to have gotten pretty far away from the shootings, the catalyst of it all.

I’m going to the mountains for a few days, but I’ll be back with three fun things to do next Friday!

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Enjoy these photos and your weekend!

MUNI BART - Market & 4th - San Francisco
Photo by Zac Bowling

Bart
Photo by Ingmar Zahorsky

BART blur
Photo by Joshua Gatts

Powell Bart station
Photo by neutralSurface

BART pilot
Photo by Joshua Gatts

Muni News: New SFMTA chief welcomed, delayed, Muni forum, SFMTA merch

wishful thinking
Photo by blarfiejandro

  • S.F. officers involved in parolee’s shooting IDd (SFGate)
  • Welcome, Ed Reiskin! (Market Street Railway)
  • Millions in savings unclaimed; after audits, Muni revealed $20 million excess overtime (SF Public Press)
  • Reset SF Hot Button Series Forum on Muni Reform, Aug. 23 (Phil Ting’s Reset SF)
  • SFMTA Finally to Offer Officially Branded Merch (SF Weekly)
  • BART protests force new Muni director, supervisor to ride aboveground (SF Examiner)

Update: Photo Gallery of Anonymous #OpBART Protest


Photo by lmc_sf

BART’s disruption of cell phone service last Thursday led to the hacking of myBART.org by the group Anonymous, who also promised a live protest today at BART stations. We followed the coverage from our best sources as it happened.

Missed the madness? A photo gallery of the #opBART protest via Instagram:


Photo by tigerbeat


Photo by tigerbeat


Photo by miscellania

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Anonymous Hacks myBART.org

The online hacker group Anonymous has hacked into myBART.org and released thousands of names, email and home addresses, and phone numbers, reports TheNextWeb. They’ve also defaced myBART.org, an independent website, with the hacker group’s logo, reports CNET.

The hacker group had threatened to take BART.gov off line today and also proposed a protest on Monday at 5 p.m. As of 3:15 p.m., the BART.gov website is still live.

All of this came from BART’s decision to cut cell service last Thursday in anticipation of a protest about the July 3 shooting.

Read more about it at the SFAppeal and the Bay Citizen.

What do you think: is this an effective way to protest BART’s cell disruption?

Your Two Cents: BART Defends Decision to Cut Cell Service

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Photo by Black Hour

By now you know that BART temporarily shut down cell service on Thursday to interfere with a proposed protest over the shooting of Charles Hill. And now the agency is under a lot of heat.

According to CNET:

Hackers were calling for action against BART in retaliation for the cell service disruption. The Anonymous group of online activists started promoting Operation BART on Twitter, with one profile saying: “We are going to show BART (@SFBART) how to prevent a riot #OpBART.” … Meanwhile, they also released a digital flyer with the headline “muBARTek,” a reference to former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who was ousted after demonstrations earlier this year. “

The SFAppeal reports that BART didn’t violate specific FCC rules. And once you’re on the BART platform, “free speech isn’t so free,” says the SF Appeal report (read the Appeal’s excellent coverage of the cell jam).

What do you think of BART’s decision to cut cell service Thursday?

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