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EFF To Appeal Court Order Vs. Subway Hack Demo

Posted by kdawson on from the tell-no-one dept.

snydeq sends along InfoWorld coverage of the EFF's plans to appeal a US District Court order that kept three MIT students from presenting detailed flaws in the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority e-ticketing system at Defcon. And an anonymous reader points out that the MBTA, in addition to triggering the Streisand Effect, released in open court more information on vulnerabilities (PDF) than the students had any intention of presenting. See Exhibit 1 to this court filing.

2 of 189 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Them again? by Random+BedHead+Ed · · Score: 5, Informative

    Why is it that every time I read about the EFF or Lesig I hear about how they are going down in flames in once case or another? Are we taking about the Washington generals here? Whats it going to take for them to actually win something for a change.

    http://www.eff.org/victories

  2. Link to DefCon presentation by AgentPhunk · · Score: 5, Informative
    MIT's student newspaper "The Tech" includes the full DefCon presentation on their site:
    http://www-tech.mit.edu/V128/N30/subway/

    Direct link to the presentation PDF:
    http://www-tech.mit.edu/V128/N30/subway/Defcon_Presentation.pdf