Black car of the car: drops of a taxi is exposing the vulnerability-drops of a taxi, taxi software-IT news Black car of the car: drops a taxi was exposure vulnerability

Messaging software for people to bring convenience to the transportation by taxi, but also created new problems that followed. Consumers have recently reflected, with drops of software called by taxi to the "black".

Who lives in Fengtai District in Beijing, Ms Wei reflected, July 12, at 9 o'clock in the morning, she drops by software at home by taxi to a taxi to World Park, out of the district after the discovery, turned out to be a private car parked at the gate.

"I was very surprised, but the driver of the car was certainly with my calls confirmed the driver's voice, and even license plate numbers are displayed on the taxi software is the same. ”

This Jobe made her confused, but due to the pick-up location is near the destination, and waiting at high temperature during the day is hard work, Ms Wei family of four still in the car. Aboard Defender finds this is not a normal private car: steering wheel installed next to a phone that drops a taxi software is running and still receive messages in real time, exactly the same as she sees on a regular cab.

Is different from a regular taxi, is this car does not meter. "Fare category? "" This place close to starting price. "Naturally, to the destination MS Defender did not get a taxi receipt.

Wei after woman found living with her two friends in the same community also called taxi to the black drops. One friend asked for tickets to the driver when you get off, the driver pulled out a pile of receipts, select an amount close to the ticket handed to her. She get off the bus carefully--it was a month ago.

Therefore, the reporter interviewed a random 4-bit driver. Three of them said they had heard a similar thing, one is not clear, because he had not been used for a taxi software.

Reporters could find a black drop it?

Cab driver 1: Yes! Such a situation.

Reporter: do you know why?

Taxi 2: this kind of thing is hard to say, many are regular taxi, delivery is not dry, but the account information is still there, you can continue to use black.

Taxi driver 3: there are taxis and black cars were in cahoots, a taxi will sell orders, many of them have a community. Or just far enough in the taxi, however, he sold the list.

Reporter: black and there is no meter, how did they calculate the price of it?

Taxi driver 2: look for, and some should be done before a taxi, or at least not lose money.

Reporter: black car drivers how to provide receipts to customers?

Taxi 2: some taxis will not to sell tickets to black customers, some using fake tickets. Now lots of clones in the taxi it! Black does not make money, low cost, as long as you can shake a number to purchase a car, capable.

Black drops can register it? Reporter drops as consumer advisory taxi service, said that requiring drivers to taxi driver-side registration drops to submit their real name, company and license plate number, driver's license number, and so on until the status is approved before it can be used.

Drop service: when you call black, car number, drivers can be the registered mobile phone number together with a note of feedback to customer service, account verification disabled black directly after the query.

When reporters when Ms Wei 12th order information to a customer service, customer service complaints said the driver had been many times before, the accounts also are disabled. But then drops the driver submits the required set of documents and accounts were lifted.

When asked why there is illegal use drops for a taxi when the software is, the other party responded that as long as the driver complete documents submitted and approved, you can use taxi software drops. Thus, in the specific operational oversight, rely solely on qualification is difficult to eliminate the vulnerability.

Investigation at this point, Ms Wei case also has a general reason: the driver of a black car with the standard taxi information registered a drop of a taxi, and use this account Rob Hooker, was banned and then lifted again. This "clone taxi" borrows tech into a "regular army", seems to have found a more stable and reliable operation of the channel.