Wired updates us on the MIT Charlie card hacking situation. A restraining order was issued and the students' talk at Defcon was canceled. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which represented the students, criticized the ruling as limiting free speech. Ironically, the students' vulnerability assessment report that the MBTA filed with its lawsuit contains even more compromising information than the students planned to present in their talk. So, basically, by filing a lawsuit, the T raised more awareness about its vulnerabilities than they would have by simply ignoring the Defcon speech, and also offered up the details on its systems' weaknesses for anyone to download and exploit. WTG, MBTA!
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