EFF: MIT Students Gagged by Federal Court Judge [LWN.net]

EFF: MIT Students Gagged by Federal Court Judge

Posted Aug 10, 2008 16:08 UTC (Sun) by bboissin (subscriber, #29506)
In reply to: EFF: MIT Students Gagged by Federal Court Judge by shadesfox
Parent article: EFF: MIT Students Gagged by Federal Court Judge

MBTA submitted a more detailed document to the court:
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/files/vulnerability_asse...

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EFF: MIT Students Gagged by Federal Court Judge

Posted Aug 11, 2008 23:37 UTC (Mon) by clugstj (subscriber, #4020) [Link]

So, the MBTA gives the court a document that proves they knew about the vulnerability in the
system, and they still get their gag order?  They should have been denied out of sheer
stupidity.

EFF: MIT Students Gagged by Federal Court Judge

Posted Aug 15, 2008 21:49 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link]

So, the MBTA gives the court a document that proves they knew about the vulnerability in the system, and they still get their gag order?

The MBTA got that document about a day before the gag order, not enough time to properly evaluate it, much less fix the security flaws. MBTA says it asked the students earlier what they were going to say in the talk, and the students wouldn't say. All MBTA had then was the title of the talk, which was in part, "Want Free Subway Rides For Life?"

The gag order is temporary, just designed to keep both parties equal until they can fully study each other's position and a court can make an informed decision.

It's unfortunate that this didn't come to court until too soon before the conference to allow an informed decision, but that's the breaks. I suppose the MIT students could have forced the lawsuit earlier if they had wanted to, and were just gambling.