A pair of students were blocked by a federal court from presenting information at a Georgia security and hackers' conference on how to break into and modify a university electronic transactions system. Washington D.C.-based education software company Blackboard successfully convinced . . .

A pair of students were blocked by a federal court from presenting information at a Georgia security and hackers' conference on how to break into and modify a university electronic transactions system. Washington D.C.-based education software company Blackboard successfully convinced a Georgia state court to block the students' presentation, which was scheduled to be given at the Interz0ne conference in Atlanta last weekend.

Blackboard argues that the restraining order blocked the publication of information gained illegally, which would have harmed the company's commercial interests and those of its clients. But conference organizers contend that the students' free speech rights were abridged.

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