The Public Ministry conducts a survey to freelancejournalist Brenno de Winter, one of the journalists who were involved in the hacking of the ov-chipkaart last year. The Winter will continue this week to be heard.
The Public Prosecutor’s office is doing research to see if The Winter during his research to various hacks of the ov-chipkaart on the wrote is gone. The TO suspect that Winter is not a journalistic purpose for the research. The Winter is Wednesday, heard about the case, so let him know Tweakers.net. He fears a lawsuit. “Al, I don’t think I condemned word.”
Journalists are allowed under strict conditions in violation of the law to abuses, to denounce. In addition, it should be clear that there is a social purpose served by the transgression of the law. According to Winter, his goal was, as required, pure journalism. “I’ve been in many publications wrote about it. I have the hack not kept quiet, but from the rooftops shouted.” In addition, he has ov-chipkaartbeheerder Trans Link Systems and the NS informed about the hacks, so claims he is.
The Winter was involved in a lot of publications about the ov-chipkaart. The ov-chipkaart was found at the end of last year with relatively cheap equipment to crack. Therefore, users can their balance increase or on a random spot check. The hacks led to political questions, and almost to the postponement of the introduction of the ov-chipkaart. The hacked card is, however, still everywhere in use and is in more and more places entered.
The investigation was triggered by a declaration of Trans Link Systems. According to The Winter knocking crucial data from the tax return is not. “They claim that there is a certain number of cards is susceptible to fraud, but that’s not true. So they have cases of fraud not detected, exactly what I wanted to show.”
The freelancejournalist calls it ‘stifling’ that the research has set. “I need a lawyer and there is pressure on my surroundings.” The Dutch Association for Journalists, is behind him, claims The Winter.