Freedom of Speech, whats that?

If you haven't heard about it here's a quick summary. Three undergraduate students at MIT were going to talk about the vulnerabilities in the area's metro system at the DEFCON/Blackhat hackers conference. They had a presentation ("Anatomy of a Subway Hack") and were scheduled to speak. The Metro "authority" found out and filed an injunction to stifle the presentation. The injunction was granted but didn't take effect until after they had distributed the information via cd. So they didn't give the presentation under threat of violence. Everyone knows open security is the best security. That's why companies hire people to try to break in and why encryption algorithms are published in the public realm. Bruce Schiener repeats the importance of this a lot in his blog and newsletter.
The latest is available via the eff.org website. To read/view the presentation click here.