Re: Judge approves TRO to stop DEFCON presentation

2008-08-10 Thread David G. Koontz
Jim Youll wrote: these have been circulating for hours, but they are content-free title slides... On Aug 9, 2008, at 7:38 PM, Ivan Krstić wrote: On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:11:11 -0400, Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Las Vegas - Three students at the Massachusetts Institute of

Re: Judge approves TRO to stop DEFCON presentation

2008-08-10 Thread Jim Youll
On Aug 9, 2008, at 8:46 PM, Jim Youll wrote: these have been circulating for hours, but they are content-free title slides... [Moderator's note: I've read them and they're far from content free. They give you a recipe for doing things like rewriting the mag stripes on stored value cards to

Re: Judge approves TRO to stop DEFCON presentation

2008-08-10 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:38:45 -0400 Ivan Krsti__ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:11:11 -0400, Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Las Vegas - Three students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) were ordered this morning by a federal court

Judge approves TRO to stop DEFCON presentation

2008-08-09 Thread Perry E. Metzger
It seems that US judges aren't as protective of speech rights as Dutch ones. Las Vegas - Three students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) were ordered this morning by a federal court judge to cancel their scheduled presentation about vulnerabilities in Boston's

Re: Judge approves TRO to stop DEFCON presentation

2008-08-09 Thread Ivan Krstić
On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:11:11 -0400, Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Las Vegas - Three students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) were ordered this morning by a federal court judge to cancel their scheduled presentation about vulnerabilities in

Re: Judge approves TRO to stop DEFCON presentation

2008-08-09 Thread Jim Youll
these have been circulating for hours, but they are content-free title slides... [Moderator's note: I've read them and they're far from content free. They give you a recipe for doing things like rewriting the mag stripes on stored value cards to give you arbitrary balances, and they even