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MIT students ungagged: Judge vacates gag order

Great way to end a Tuesday! Federal Judge George O'Toole ungagged the three MIT students who had planned to speak at Defcon on weaknesses in the Boston T's CharlieCard system. The T's operator, the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority, had sought a five-month extension on the ban -- until their vendors...

Tags: Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Student, T, MBTA, Productivity, Security, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-08-19

Decision on MIT students' gag order delayed until Tuesday

Decision on MIT students' gag order delayed until TuesdayReport>gag-release-gag- >Advise-dismiss-demand-gagMBTA needs to get their act together.

Tags: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Discussion threads 2008-08-15

MBTA published checksum info in court filings

MBTA published checksum info in court filingsWho is MBTA?Admittedly, I could probably look it up, but it really should be one of the first things you mention in your article.The important question is TRO, not PROThe spectre of a permanent restraining order is a red herring. The immediate harm...

Tags: SECURITY, MBTA, TRO, court filing, filing

Discussion threads 2008-08-14

MBTA published checksum info in court filings

Something most troubling in the email exchange between Electronic Frontier Foundation lawyer Jennifer Granick and MBTA attorney Leuan Mahony, posted by News.com. The essence is that MBTA itself included the MIT students' confidential report PDF to MBTA on their security weaknesses as an exhibit in their complaint and it is...

Tags: Security, Card, Electronic Frontier Foundation, MBTA, Essence, CharlieTicket, E-mail, Online Communications, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-08-14

Defcon's over but MBTA wants gag order to remain

Defcon's over but MBTA wants gag order to remainHAHA this wont stick for long.Better hurry up and fix your system mass. Its on the CD and probably on every hacking board. Trying to plug in a hole in a dam with chewing gum... not going to hold for...

Tags: MBTA, DefCon

Discussion threads 2008-08-13

Defcon's over but MBTA wants gag order to remain

With negotiations between the EFF-represented MIT students and the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority over a temporary restraining order at a standstill, the MBTA will go to court Thursday to ask for an extension of the temporary restraining order issued against the students this weekend. The current order expires Aug. 19....

Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Defcon, MBTA, Free Trade, Finance, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-08-13

Hack-the-T presentation hits the Web

Hack-the-T presentation hits the WebMBTA made it publically available anyway...Look, the orginal paper didn't include the most sensative material anyway. But the MBTA did obtain that though a court order and then submitted it to the courts in a way that made it publically available. sheesh. It...

Tags: SECURITY, Web, MBTA, Hack-the-T presentation, Hack-the-T, extradition, messenger

Discussion threads 2008-08-11

Hack-the-T presentation hits the Web

So, the presentation of hacking the T that three MIT students were barred from presenting is now on the Web, hosted on MIT's own servers. Apparently, this is OK because the presentation was included in the MBTA's complaint. News.com reports though that MBTA says the...

Tags: Card, Web, Open Source, Student, Presentation, MBTA, Productivity, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-08-11

Additional Resources

theNextTrain MBTA 1.2 (Mobile)

Fast, simple to use, and readily available, theNextTrain Schedules are a commuters' best friend. Contains information for all published Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority MBTA Commuter Rail Trains. MBTA operates commuter trains making stops at 132 locations in the greater Boston, Massachusetts area. This application is not affiliated with, or endorsed...

Tags: Mobile, theNextTrain, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-10-06

theNextTrain MBTA 1.2 (Mobile)

Fast, simple to use, and readily available, theNextTrain Schedules are a commuters' best friend. Offline Schedules (up to 14 days in advance) Individual Station Schedules all stops at a station Trip Schedules between two stations including trip duration and arrival time Free Schedule Updates as necessary Interactive System Map...

Tags: Station, Mobile, Jehiah Czebotar, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-09-28

Technology could have averted fatal LA train crash

Technology could have averted fatal LA train crashWhy is everyone so hell bent on blaming the cell phone?Yes it may have been the engineer was utilizing a cellular phone (texting/phone or otherwise). The cell phone is an inanimate object and not capable of making choices - it does as its...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, phone, cell phone

Discussion threads 2008-09-16

News to know: Windows 7; Graphic card upgrades; Psystar; Netflix outage

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Where on earth are these Microsoft patches? Ed Bott: Sinofsky dishes on Windows 7 Mary Jo Foley: Sinofsky to dish on Windows 7? Wishful thinking System Center Online: Another Microsoft-hosted cloud service in the making ...

Tags: NetFlix Inc., Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Open Source, Health Care, Apple iPhone 3G, Outage, Microsoft Windows, 3G, Corporate Governance, Vertical Industries, Operating Systems, Software, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2008-08-15

Decision on MIT students' gag order delayed until Tuesday

The MIT students currently under a gag order not to speak about their research into security holes in the Boston's CharlieCard system will spend the weekend still gagged. A federal judge today declined to lift a temporary restraining order until it expires on Tuesday, News.com reports. ...

Tags: Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Student, Security, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-08-14

News to know: Open source court victory; Surveillance; SAP; VMware

Notable headlines: Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Police Surveillance: Go Snoop, Yourself Olympics Victor: NBC, Over YouTube Lessig blog: Huge and important news: free licenses upheld NYT: Ruling Is a Victory for Supporters of Free Software Adrian Kingsley-Hughes:...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Open Source, SAP AG, Apple Inc., VMware Inc., Defcon, 3G, Notebooks, Wireless, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2008-08-14

Joomla hit by critical password-reset forgery flaw

Joomla hit by critical password-reset forgery flawReset Yur Admin PasswordHere's a link to how to reset your password in MySQL if you have already been exploited. It's important that you do this if you are having issues.http://anotherguy.us/categories/software/25-recover-your-admin-password-in-joomlaWOW!All I can say is WOW! This is security 101, or even before that....

Tags: SECURITY, Joomla, flaw

Discussion threads 2008-08-13

Go MIT! (or should the students get a slap on the wrists?)

Go MIT! (or should the students get a slap on the wrists?)Government censorship is wrong...and UNconstitutional.Make no mistake, the MBTA is a government organization.The US Constitution states "no law abridging freedom of speech".The judge who issued the restraining order is:1. an idiot2. a d_o_u_chebag3. a fool4. retardedRE: Go MIT! (or...

Tags: Government, DC-metro, Government Censorship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, wrist

Discussion threads 2008-08-11

MIT students fight for right to expose security gaps in Boston subway

The talk by three MIT students was to be titled "The Anatomy of a Subway Hack: Breaking Crypto RFIDs & Magstripes of Ticketing Systems." It was to be delivered Sunday at Defcon. Then the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority sued for an injunction to stop the speech and a U.S. District...

Tags: electronic frontier foundation, massachusetts institute of technology, productivity, security, richard koman

Blog posts 2008-08-09

Skype over BlackBerry IM session from Boston's Fenway Park

Note: Since this post is about BlackBerry as well as Skype, I've decided to replicate this from my VoIP blog. Skype Journal’s Jim Courtney writes that last night, he accomplished successful Skype IM connections over his BlackBerry.Jim was in Boston’s Fenway Park, and he was conversing with his buddy and mine...

Tags: BlackBerry Software

Blog posts 2007-06-14

Skype IM over BlackBerry? Success with IM+ for Skype!

Skype Journal's Jim Courtney writes that last night, he accomplished successful Skype IM connections over his BlackBerry.Jim was in Boston's Fenway Park, and he was conversing with his buddy and mine Alec Saunders. Alec's in Ottawa.Jim used  IM+ for Skype Software, which costs $25. Of course add SkypeOut calls to...

Tags: BlackBerry, Skype

Blog posts 2007-06-14