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Massachusetts sues to halt Defcon subway card hacking
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LAS VEGAS — The state of Massachusetts has asked a federal judge for a temporary restraining order preventing three MIT students from giving a presentation on Sunday about hacking smartcards used in the Boston subway system.
The students are scheduled to give a presentation at the Defcon conference that they said would describe “several attacks to completely break the CharlieCard,” an RFID card that the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority uses on the Boston T subway line. They also planned to release card-hacking software they had created.
Massachusetts’ request to halt the Defcon presentation was scheduled to be heard by a federal judge in Boston on Saturday. The suit, filed on Friday, also names the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a defendant.
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[Via CNET - News.com]
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