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Interview With MIT Subway Hacker Zack Anderson

Posted by timothy on from the clearly-a-terrorist dept.

longacre writes "In his most extensive interview since the DefCon controversy emerged, MIT subway hacker Zack Anderson talks with Popular Mechanics about what's wrong with the Charlie Card, what happened at DefCon, and what it's like to tango with the FBI and the MBTA. The interview comes on the heels of Tuesday's court ruling denying motions by the MBTA to issue a preliminary injunction aimed at keeping the students quiet for a further five months."

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  1. The battle by Adreno · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm really glad that the court decided to overturn the injunction. We need to get information like this out in the open, so we can solve these problems quickly and in an open-source manner. Simply denying that a problem such as this exists does not solve the problem... it delays a fix, and makes it even MORE likely that such exploitation will happen in the first place.

  2. Re:no, not really by Hoplite3 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yes, the old fire in the theater line... That's from the Holmes ruling in the Schenck case. Schenck was posting fliers bashing the draft for WWI and got swept up and jailed by the police. Holmes wrote for the Supreme Court majority that such speech was equivalent to shouting fire in a theater and Schenck (continued) his time in jail.

    Remember kids: every time someone uses this line to define the limits on free speech, they are hearkening back to rulings that undercut the very purpose of the 1st amendment.

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    Use the Firehose to mod down Second Life stories!
  3. What it's like to tango with the MBTA by knifeyspooney · · Score: 5, Funny

    Having lived in Boston for five years, I don't need to RTFA to know what that was like.

    -They arrived at court 45 minutes late without apologizing to the judge
    -During oral arguments, the MBTA's attorney paused several times, each time for 5-10 minutes, for no apparent reason
    -MBTA officials wore blazers acquired off the rack for $9,000 apiece; no immediate plans to purchase pants
    -Despite earning one of the highest wages in the industry, the attorney was surly and lazy

    And, after the judge denied the MBTA's request for an injunction against the hacker, GM Dan Grabauskas issued a press release trumping the agency's legal victory.