[rhn_mk1]

"Reverse engineering" is where you learn something about how a system works, especially nonpublic information.

What you described doesn't have anything nonpublic or learned facts. Instead, it's a cooperation to fool someone into not having to pay for service. I'm not sure if it could even be called "cracking", since that typically involves learning new facts, too. Only "exploiting" comes to mind.

[fuzzfactor]

I'll concede the exploiting but there's always going to be some discrepancy about what a natural-born Florida "Cracker" is to begin with :)

And engineering is over exaggerated too, more like the tickets were merely reversed not thoroughly reverse engineered.

We certainly weren't going to counterfeit any tickets.

Just work around the system.

[rhn_mk1]

"Reversing" without "engineering" only makes sense if you mean that they were turned around on their route :P Otherwise "reversing" doesn't have a standalone meaning that I know that fits here.