MIT subway hack presentation online
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Massachusetts Institute of Technology students Zack Anderson, R.J. Ryan and Alessandro Chiesa found holes in the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority’s Charlie Card and Charlie Ticket Fare systems.
The trio were all set to go into detail at Defcon 16.
Then Massachusetts officialdom stepped in and their presentation was halted.
The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) is trying to have the gag order removed, calling it unconstitutional.
“The students’ ultimate goal in the security research was to help the MBTA improve its security,” says EFF lawyer Kurt Opsahl.
“Despite colorful marketing rhetoric advertising a presentation of the students’ work at a security conference, the students never intended to provide sufficient information to the public to replicate the attack.”
Not to worry, though.
Wikileaks to the rescue with the fully illustrated version.
In glorious colour 
http://file.sunshinepress.org:54445/anatomy-of-a-subway-hack.pdf
(Thanks, Luvie)
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EFF – EFF Urges Judge to Lift Gag Order on MIT Students, August 13, 2008
Wikileaks – Anatomy of a Subway Hack 2008, August 10, 2008
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August 14th, 2008 at 10:03 am
According to the papers, these students received an “A” for this project which the US courts are putting a gag order on preventing them from attending Defcon.
August 14th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
MBTA, meet Streisand Effect.
By the time the injunction against the students was granted, it was already
too late. CDs with the presentation on it had been handed out to all the
participants at the Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas