The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is suing a trio of MIT students, saying their plan to unmask potential security flaws in the CharlieCard and Charlie- Ticket systems at a Las Vegas computer conference would cause "significant damage to the transit system."
The T was granted an injunction yesterday in US District Court in Boston that bars Zack Anderson, R.J. Ryan, and Alessandro Chiesa from presenting their methods and findings at the DEFCON hacker convention today.
In court documents filed Friday, the MBTA alleged that the trio claimed to have circumvented the security protocols of the electronic ticketing system. The suit alleges the students publicly offered "free subway rides for life" to people over the Internet, and planned to show others how to duplicate their methods at a DEFCON presentation.
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