The MBTA wildly overreacted to the students' proposed presentation, and obtained an 11th hour injunction from a federal court in Boston, preventing them from going on stage, electronic Frontier Foundation represented the students, and 10 days later we convinced the judge to reverse the earlier gag, as it was blatantly unconstitutional.

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Instead of working with the researchers to fix the problem, Volkswagen chose to bury its head in the sand and pretend that banning academic discussion of the flaw would somehow prevent thieves from learning of it and exploiting it, because of Volkswagen's refusal to engage with the security researcher community, their cars may still be vulnerable to the attack and their customers are less secure.

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Security researchers are allies, not opponents, and their work ma... by Nate Cardozo

Security researchers are allies, not opponents, and their work makes us all more safe, not less.

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United should take this opportunity to improve the security of their systems, rather than punish those who have tried to work to make us safer.

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It is disappointing that United refused to allow him to board, and we hope that United learns that computer security researchers are a vital ally, not a threat.

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