But rank-and-file transit workers say their benefits, which also extend to thousands of current employees around the region, are hard-earned, and are no different from a Bloomingdale's clerk receiving a discount on clothes.
The company has been delivering encryption products for email and files in transit for several years now, mainly through a partnership with Google GMail and Microsoft Office 365.
YouSendit not only encrypts files during transit (which is common), but also while stored on the company's servers and on the devices themselves.
This landmark action results from an administrative complaint filed by transit policy experts and community advocacy groups represented by Public Advocates Inc.
You can sometimes protect file attachments in transit by compressing them first, using a program like PKZip for Windows or StuffIt for Macintosh or an encoding method like MIME.
Its digital-rights-management feature blocks unauthorized users from downloading, encrypts the file while in transit and makes it difficult to burn additional copies.
At the end of Ms. Byrd's eight-hour shift, she hands in her train report, and it is carried, like hundreds of others around the city, to a file room in New York City Transit's headquarters at Jay Street in Brooklyn, where information about trains' timeliness, mechanical problems and other incidents are then, finally, keyed into a computer.
A luxury bus line in San Francisco has been accused of removing access for people with disabilities in favor of a coffee bar, according to a complaint filed by former city transit employee Chris Pangilinan, who has used a wheelchair for most of his life.
On Tuesday, the two largest unions representing Bay Area Rapid Transit workers filed a lawsuit against BART's board of directors over what labor leaders describe as an unlawful betrayal and management calls a "mistake".
However, the contract was stalled when CAF filed suit against the transit authority, claiming that their selection of AnsladoBreda was due to the fact that the builder was willing to open a local factory in Miami-Dade County to assemble the vehicles.
Transfections with siRNAs (Dharmacon; sequences in Additional file 1) and the TransIT-siQUEST (Mirus) reagent were performed in six-well plates by specific optimization of the manufacturer's suggested conditions.
