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RE: Slashdot | Blackboard Campus IDs: Security Thru Cease & Desist
by Elonka at 5:31 pm EDT, Apr 14, 2003

Nanochick wrote:
] ] On Saturday night, Virgil and Acidus, two young security
] ] researchers, were scheduled to give a talk at Interz0ne
] ] II on security flaws they'd found in a popular ID card
] ] system for universities. It's run by Blackboard, formerly
] ] by AT&T, and you may know it as OneCard, CampusWide, or
] ] BuzzCard. On Saturday, instead of the talk, attendees got
] ] to hear an Interz0ne official read the Cease and Desist
] ] letter sent by corporate lawyers. The DMCA, among other
] ] federal laws including the Economic Espionage Act, were
] ] given as the reasons for shutting down the talk. I spoke
] ] with Virgil this morning.

Um, it'd be a shameless plug, but isn't there a way that we could work the Memestreams URL into the Slashdot thread somewhere?

RE: Slashdot | Blackboard Campus IDs: Security Thru Cease & Desist


 
 
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