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The public prosecutor actually has a unusually high conviction rate (can't cite a source right now for this), but there was a very similar scandal last year where a similarly young security enthusiast figured out he could buy public transport tickets for any price in the then recently launched web interface of the Budapest public transport company (BKK). He did this simply by editing the form post URL on the order page.

BKK then tried to prosecute him but quickly dropped the case since there was a huge public outrage. The website and the related services has been down ever since the incident.

So this is why people suspect they will drop the case soon again, but as an other commenter already said, they are incompetent and corrupt to the bones, so who knows?



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