Posted on 08/11/2008 1:30:03 PM PDT by decimon
LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AFP) - A US judge on Saturday gagged hackers from telling peers at a notorious DefCon conference how to get free rides by cracking commonly used subway "smart cards."
The decision was immediately condemned by Internet rights attorneys that decried it as an attack on free speech that endangers the existence of computer security gatherings such as DefCon and Black Hat.
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Thus insuring that everyone there would know the secret before lunchtime...
It is engaging in a conspiracy to defraud a government program (transit). It is a criminal act and is not protected "Free speech".
Neither are death threats, libel, slander, fraud, perjury, defamation of character, inciting a riot, treason...
ROFLMAO, oh, that'll work.
LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AFP) - A US judge on Saturday gagged hackers from telling peers at a notorious DefCon conference how to get free rides by cracking commonly used subway “smart cards.”
Gag orders are even more useless the PFA’s
What are they going to do? Wire everyone to insure the judges order is followed? What silly nonsense. if the people are criminals they should be arrest and put in jail. If not then why is a judge issuing an order at all?
actually the movie industry tried to arugue that connecting two VCR’s together was theft.
Knowledge of how to is not the theft.
This judge KNOWS this is bandade at best.
However the other people are correct here, now that the word is out that this can be done, those not subject to this will spread it across the world.
There are college courses and programs in computer security where criminal techniques are taught. For that matter, Criminal Justice has been a hot degree for some time now. Not that graduates are necessarily getting jobs in their field but the degree has been hot.
Good stuff!
Which was most likely immidiately violated by the hackers and their targets using encrypted emails and thumb drives with instructions.
Decryption experts predict prosectuions in 200 years when the files are rendered into clear text.
Serves the cheapskates in Boston right for using flaky Mag Stripe and RFID technology instead of microprocessor cards.
Horses gone.
Fine time to shut the barn door. It will keep the hay from running away.
We really need to outlaw thought crime.
Obviously this judge is inteligent but not very smart.
Now imagine if you can print thousands of those cards for the “honest stuggling peoples”.
I wonder if this is going to be used to justify more money to cover losses for these white elephant trains.
In Texas they are now requiring a private investigator LICENSE to work in computer repair and security...
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2324220,00.asp
http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/80R/billtext/html/HB02833F.htm
That's one way to weed out the honest people.
“Beware of he who seeks to restrict your access to free flow of information ... for in his mind, he already deems himself your master.” —Sid Meyer
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