This Globe story is a decent enough, if largely repetitive, background piece on those three MIT students and the MBTA. Reporter Michael Levenson actually talked to one of them - even if mainly to reveal the guy's been playing with computers since fourth grade and likes doing uber-geeky stuff.

But the headline is: T hacking exposes a deeper clash

What clash has been laid bare here? I think it might be the reference, way, way down in the story, past the recap of the whole incident, to the three types of hackers: "White hat" hackers, "Black hat" hackers and "gray hat" hackers, who are sort of the Snapes of hackerdom.

Only thing is, that's not new and there's no clash of ideas over the point in the story, unless you count a mild comment from an "old" hacker (dude was hacking way back in the 1990s) about how he can see how the T might not like being hacked.