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0:00 Stealing $10,000 From MKBHD
4:04 How The Hack Works
8:29 High Value vs Low Value Transactions
10:18 Tricking The Card Reader
14:20 Transit Mode
15:22 Why does this hack only work with Visa?
17:10 How does RSA encryption work?
20:13 How can you prevent this hack?
21:59 What are Visa doing about it?

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A huge thank you to professors Ioana Boureanu from the University of Surrey and Tom Chothia from the University of Birmingham, for supporting us with the execution and the explanation of the hack. This video would not have been possible without their support. A big thanks, too, to the University of Surrey for hosting us.

And a shout out to Dr Andreea-Ina Radu who, as a researcher at the University of Birmingham on the “TimeTrust project" (2019-2023), actually went to the London Underground to collect the initial data that made this hack possible in the first place!

And a massive thank you to @mkbhd and his team for agreeing to be our victim for this hack, and for being such a good sport!

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References: https://ve42.co/MKBHDHackRefs

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Writers: James Moore, Henry van Dyck u0026 Gregor Čavlović
Producer u0026 Director: James Moore
Presenter: Henry van Dyck
Editor: Peter Nelson
Animators: Emma Wright, Domonkos Józsa, Fabio Albertelli u0026 Andrew Neet
Assistant Editor and Sound Designer: James Stuart
Researchers: Aakash Singh Bagga u0026 Sophia Rose
Camera Operators: Andrew Abballe, Henry van Dyck u0026 Andy Perez
Thumbnail Designers: Abdallah Rabah, Ren Hurley u0026 Ben Powell
Production Team: Jess Bishop-Laggett, Matthew Cavanagh, Anna Milkovic u0026 Sulli Yost
Executive Producers: Derek Muller, Gregor Čavlović u0026 Casper Mebius

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