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Two fantastic judge rulings

August 20th, 2008

Two great judge rulings today.

1. Judges have ruled in favor of the MIT students, removing the gag order. Judge O’Toole said the MBTA failed to present an adequate case for the gag order. Notably, that the students’ presentation was meant to be delivered to people, and was not a computer-to-computer “transmission.” Second, the MBTA could not prove the student’s had caused $5,000 worth of damage to the subway system.

2. Federal Judge Jerome Niedermeie in Vermont has ruled that prosecutors can’t force a criminal defendant accused of having illegal images on his hard drive to divulge his PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) passphrase in order to hold up the Fifth Amendment.

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