Joe's Random Ramblings

The EFF has send out a press release regarding three MIT students who were ordered by a federal judge to cancel their presentation about vulnerabilities they discovered in Boston's public transportation system.

This is of course just another attempt by an inept public entity to keep their stupidity under wraps. When will these guys learn that "security through obscurity" doesn't work?
And of course, they now got themselves the "Streisand effect"...
Their actions pushed the presentation out of its relative obscurity, and it will now get a much much wider distribution. In other words, instead of suppressing it, they ended up advertising it to the world... Cluelessness at work...

The slides for the presentation are at the time of this writing online at MIT.
Just in case they vanish, I also put them up locally (thanks to rmmst49 for providing a link in his comment to the LWN article discussing this.)

Update: CNet reports that the judge has lifted the gag order.