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popularmechanics.com — Its rare that a hacker convention makes national news, but three MIT students caused a whole lot of controversy when they planned a presentation about security holes in Boston's subway system for DefCon in Las Vegas earlier this month.

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  • latrosicarius, on 08/22/2008, -0/+4Hiding your vulnerabilities and hushing up problems always fixes my security flaws.

    It makes the hackers stop trying to hack you if you put a restraining order on good-intentioned people who are trying to help you uncover and solve your security holes.

    All I can say is good thing this story didn't make the news. Now, nobody knows that you can hack our system
  • thegamingguy, on 08/21/2008, -0/+3There is a very fine line between hacker and threat. I think they made it clear what their intentions were and essentially got a bad deal getting wrapped up in the legal battle. It is hackers like this that help point out what the "bad" hackers would exploit for their own gain. One blog referred to them as heroes, we will never know.
  • doscrash, on 08/22/2008, -0/+2Hero or no, this guy is clearly a rock star. And where is that elusive button that opens MBTA turnstiles, anyway?

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