Concering Acidus, Virgil, and Blackboard:

• Chilling Effects: Blackboard Erases Research Presentation with Cease-and-Desist, TRO. by Jennifer Jenkins, Center for the Study of the Public Domain :
  ... (There is no indication that the students had the necessary resources to negotiate a fair settlement, any more than they did to defend the original lawsuit.) ...
  The other terms of this settlement concentrated on preserving Blackboard’s image and perpetuating the impression that its system was secure, and preventing future research that might show otherwise. ...
  In the end, Blackboard was able to use the law to ban two students from speaking at a conference, conducting security research and publicly criticizing its product. As long as such efforts prove effective, other individuals and corporations will continue to misuse the law in order to censor speech and other legitimate activities. Those concerned with chilling effects should take note.
• Interz0ne (on the pathetic settlement) :
  "If Hoffman and Griffith's claims were "silly," why then the cease and desist order, the restraining order, and threats of charges for violating numerous state and federal statutes, including the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, the Economic Espionage Act, the Electronic Communications and Privacy Act, the Wiretap Act, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the Lenham Act, Georgia's Computer Systems Protection Act and the Georgia Trade Secrets Act? ...
  "To conclude that Blackboard's transaction system is now secure, simply because their lawyers have silenced a couple of college-kid critics is... 'silly.' ...
  "If Blackboard's system is truly secure, they would not have prevented Hoffman and Griffith from speaking. If Blackboard's system is truly secure, they would gladly allow outside, independent and public security audits."
• F***'em!
• Overcode's Excellent FAQ
• Verified Complaint: many news reports don't seem to have actually read this!
  

• Chilling Effects:   Blackboard demands that conference organizer prevent publication of security flaws
• Politechbot:   Judge Orders...   DMCA not part of...   If Interz0ne report is out...   Blackboard responds...
  

• Slashdot:   Blackboard Campus IDs: Security Thru Cease & Desist
• The Register
• The Crimson White (University of Alabama) : Opinion ... News
• The Technique (Georgia Tech)
• Google news
• Interz0ne
• Blackboard:   Statement on Client System Security
  

• Billy Hoffman:   "I looked at it and found the emperor has no clothes, and now everyone's mad at me."