MBTA v. Anderson

Electronic Frontier Foundation. (2008). MBTA v. Anderson.

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Web resource

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Web

Year

2008

Link

https://www.eff.org/cases/mbta-v-anderson

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• Streisand Effect
  • In information security, attempts to suppress vulnerability research or leaked documents make the legal threat itself the headline.

    This sourceDocuments the MBTA's lawsuit and emergency gag order against MIT students set to present subway fare-card vulnerabilities at DEFCON: the suppression attempt itself became the headline and the suppressed slides (filed as public court exhibits) propagated widely — an information-security instance of a legal threat amplifying the very research it sought to suppress.

    Supported in partVerified against the work's full text

    The EFF page documents a transit agency's lawsuit and gag order against students' fare-system vulnerability talk, but does not say the suppression attempt became the headline.

    “Three students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) were ordered by a federal court judge to cancel their scheduled presentation at DEFCON about vulnerabilities in Boston's transit fare payment system”

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