Three MIT students can now talk, but not because of their right to free speech. For the past 10 days, the trio has been restrained by a judge’s order from describing their now-celebrated exposure of a flaw in the Boston transit system’s fare card. Yesterday a U.S. District Court judge in Boston lifted the gag order because he did not believe the students had violated a federal law against transmitting malicious computer software, CNET reports. Many had expected the matter to be decided along First Amendment interpretations, but instead the decision turned on the issue of what counted as “transmission” of software and what did not.
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2 Responses to Judge Frees the Tongues of MIT Subway Hackers
attbmk - May 30, 2012 at 8:51 am
There were a few things that need to be changed. First, 25 minutes wasn’t enough for the individual portion of the exam. I gave them an extra 5 minutes and that was about right. Also, it took a lot of time to arrange 27 students into groups of 3-4 and seat them, so I’m going to arrange all of that in advance for the next assessment. With the extra time not taken up by getting seated, students said they could use a 5-minute Q&A session before the test, and that seems like a reasonable request to me.
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Shawna Haider - July 3, 2012 at 7:50 pm
Doing a little research as I’m designing a new calculus class and ran across your post. Very interested to see what your assessment looked like but the file is no longer available. Is it possible to get that file still?
I found your ideas for the more frequent assessment and collaboration very interesting and informative. I’d be interested in knowing how it worked out over the life of the course now you are done.
Thanks!