Some students who figured out how to hack the Boston subway token system were prevented by court order from presenting their reserach at the DEF CON hacker conference this week. The students complied, but the MIT student newspaper, using documents obtained from previously distributed copies and publicly available court records, have posted the prohibited documents online, including the DEF CON presentation. "The court's order is an illegal prior restraint on legitimate academic research in violation of the First Amendment," said Jennifer Granickpeech, an EFF representative.
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