http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10017438-83.html By Declan McCullagh Security - News.com August 14, 2008 The state of Massachusetts is showing no signs of abandoning its fight to keep a restraining order in place against three MIT students who discovered subway card vulnerabilities. In fact, the state transit agency is escalating its rhetoric. In a legal brief filed Thursday, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority went so far as to claim that the three "defendants enjoy no protections under the First Amendment." The document was filed around the same time that U.S. District Judge George O'Toole Jr. held a hearing in the case in his Boston courtroom. O'Toole denied a request from the students' attorneys to lift the gag order--and instead ordered the students to divulge to the transit agency by Friday more information about what they've done. MBTA has demanded copies of documents including correspondence with the Defcon conference, a paper prepared for an MIT class, software, physical equipment, modified MBTA farecards, notes from meetings, and so on. MBTA wants to conduct a four-hour deposition of computer science major Zack Anderson at 9 a.m. ET Friday at their attorney's offices at 10 St. James Avenue, followed by a two-hour deposition of MIT professor Ron Rivest at 2:30 p.m ET. (The other student defendants are Alessandro Chiesa and R.J. Ryan.) [...] __________________________________________________ Visit Defcon Pics - Defcon Memory Repository http://www.defconpics.orgReceived on Fri Aug 15 2008 - 00:06:06 PDT
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