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DEFCON 16 NEWS: MIT Students Gagged by Federal Court Judge
The EFF Announced today that they will represent 3 MIT students who were set to present at DEFCON 16 on Mass transit vulnerablities. The students were forced to cancel their presentation on Sunday, due to a Federal Court Judge's Order.
From eff.org:
MIT Students Gagged by Federal Court JudgeEFF Backs Researchers Forced to Cancel Presentation on Transit Fare Payment System
Las Vegas - Three students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) were ordered this morning by a federal court judge to cancel their scheduled presentation about vulnerabilities in Boston's transit fare payment system, violating their First Amendment right to discuss their important research. (read more at: http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2008/08/09
To see what other press is happening at DEFCON 16, check out the DEFCON in the news thread at https://forum.defcon.org/showthread.php?p=98012#post98012
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