MIT Students MBTA hack presentation on MIT servers

A trio of students was planning to give a presentation on Sunday at the DEFCON conference in Las Vegas. The presentation detailed security flaws in the “Charlie Card” automatic payment system used by the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA).

The authority argued that the presentation would give users the ability to tamper with the Charlie Card system and ride Boston’s subways for free. As such, the MBTA claims that the presentation violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFFA).

In response to the claim, a US district court judge has issued a ruling which prevents the three students from disclosing any information on the subject for ten days, well after the conference has ended.

The judge’s decision to issue prior restraint on the students caught the attention of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which is now representing the three researchers in their appeal of the Judge’s order.

No it seems like the presentation has been placed on MIT’s severs…go tale a look