MBTA Will Work With MIT Students, Rather Than Suing Them, To Improve Security
from the a-good-move,-a-little-late dept
You may recall, back in August, that the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority convinced a judge to ban the Defcon presentation by three MIT students, showing how weak the security was on the Boston transit system, and how easy it was to get past it. Of course, in trying to ban the talk, the MBTA only succeeded in getting a lot more attention for its own security vulnerabilities -- and, in the end, the judge lifted the gag order anyway, allowing the students to present their research.The good news is that the MBTA has now dropped the lawsuit and done what it should have done in the first place: agreed to work with the students to come up with ways to improve security. It's good that they eventually came to this conclusion -- though still mind-boggling that they went down the legal route first.
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Lazy
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"Hey boss, great news, some MIT students want to help us fix our security issues."
"Damn them to hell, we're going to sue their asses."
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Fire
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I'd be pissed
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Now don't be putting me on the list now boys. you hear?
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RE: Lazy
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MIT Students: Why sure we will (wink, wink)..:)
Hope they leave some backdoors for themselves for when and if the MBTA has another genius attack...
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Other possible responses.
"We would like meet in order to discuss the terms of the contract and your organization's contractor pay rates."
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My Book On How To Assassinate The President - Tips For Terrorists
The restraining order is active until January 20, 2009, but there won't be a market for my book after that date, except for maybe a few racists, and MY book was written specifically to appeal to Moslems and Arabs.
Our government claims to be FOR private enterprise and to reward initiative, but see what four years of hard labor on my book got me? A restraining order.
I empathize with those MIT students. Let those terrorists fend for themselves. We certainly don't want to give them a roadmap to make it easy for them to bring us to our knees. That is one reason why mass transit systems run at irregular times, to keep them off balance.
Terrorists would not have had to resort to shoe throwing if they had been allowed access to my book. They would have found out that the best way to remove the incumbent President would be to encourage him to go hunting with his Vice President.
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