http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/08/federal-judge-t.html By Kim Zetter Threat Level Wired.com August 19, 2008 A federal judge in Boston this morning let expire a temporary gag order against three MIT students who were prevented from presenting a talk on security vulnerabilities in the Boston subway's fare tickets and cards. U.S. District Judge George A. O'Toole, Jr., vacated the temporary 10-day restraining order that another judge had instituted more than a week ago against the students and which was scheduled to expire today. District Judge O'Toole also threw out a request by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) to obtain a preliminary injunction against the students to expand the restraining order beyond the original 10 days. "It's great news for the free speech rights for these students," said Rebecca Jesche, a spokeswoman for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which represented the students. "Although it's extremely unfortunate that the students were not allowed to give their talk at DefCon." The students had planned to give their talk last Sunday at the DefCon hacker conference in Las Vegas. The talk was based on a research project and paper that they had submitted for a class taught by their MIT professor, noted cryptographer Ron Rivest. The paper had earned them an "A." [...] __________________________________________________ Register now for HITBSecConf2008 - Malaysia! With a new triple-track conference featuring 4 keynote speakers and over 35 international experts, this is the largest network security event in Asia and the Middle East! http://conference.hackinthebox.org/hitbsecconf2008kl/Received on Wed Aug 20 2008 - 04:38:03 PDT
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