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Boston subway in talks with students over transit card flawsOpen in New Window
"In a positive twist, the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) has announced it intends to partner with the same group of MIT students it once sued in an attempt to prevent them from revealing read more »
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With lawsuit settled, hackers now working with MBTAOpen in New Window
"Three Massachusetts Institute of Technology students who were sued earlier this year by the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) said Monday that they are now working to make the Boston trans read more »
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Open source programming languages for kidsOpen in New Window
Ryan McGrath writes about Scratch, developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten group at MIT. "Scratch is a graphical programming environment implemented in Squeak that works in a very Lego-like fashion. read more »
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MIT to Open Source Mobile Web CodeOpen in New Window
Lidija Davis reports on MIT's Mobile Web Project which delivers important functionality from the MIT website to mobile phones in an accessible format. Now MIT intends to open source the code base fo read more »
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3 takeaways from MBTA, MIT student legal flapOpen in New Window
Jaikumar Vijayan writes an excellent analysis of the MBTA/MIT conflict over security disclosures and three lessons IT Professionals/Managers should take away. read more »
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MIT students ungagged: Judge vacates gag orderOpen in New Window
Richard Koman writes, "Federal Judge George O'Toole ungagged the three MIT students who had planned to speak at Defcon on weaknesses in the Boston T's CharlieCard system..." read more »
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Subway agency wants to keep MIT students quiet over hackOpen in New Window
A federal judge has ordered three student researchers who uncovered holes in the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority fare collection system from divulging their discoveries to anyone else. read more »
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