MIT students Zackary M Anderson 09 Russell J Ryan 09 and Alessandro Chiesa 09 were sued by the Boston MBTA

---

MIT students Zackary M Anderson 09 Russell J Ryan 09 and Alessandro Chiesa 09 were sued by the Boston MBTA after they attempted to give a presentation at the 2008 DEFCON conference on the serious security flaws in the MBTA s fare collection system as part of the research they did with Samuel G McVeety G for their final project in the MIT course 6 857 Computer and Network Security A judge has since lifted the restraining order that prevented the three from discussing their research

---

Size: 3411px × 4919px
Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Campus, Cambridge, MA, USA
Photo credit: © ES Tech Archive / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: 6, 857, allesandro, anderson, authority, bay, cambridge, chiesa, college, computer, computers, defcon, education, environmental, free, freedom, hackers, institute, lawsuit, massachusetts, mbta, mit, network, networks, portrait, prior, research, restraint, rj, russell, ryan, security, speech, student, students, technology, transporation, university, zack, zackary