August 10th, 2008

Federal Judge in DefCon Case Equates Speech with Hacking -- Updated with Recording from Hearing

Kim Zetter, Wired News

Lawyers with the Electronic Frontier Foundation said a federal judge who granted a temporary restraining order on Saturday to halt a scheduled conference talk about security vulnerabilities came to "a very, very wrong conclusion." They said the judge's order constituted illegal prior restraint, which violated the speakers' First Amendment right to discuss important and legitimate academic research.

Related Issues: Coders' Rights Project, Free Speech

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