Two student hackers yesterday settled a lawsuit filed against them by campus debit card firm Blackboard with an admission that they never built a device to defeat the system.
Georgia tech student Billy Hoffman (AKA Acidus) and University of Alabama student Virgil Griffith (Virgil) were to present a paper on security flaws involving Blackboard's popular university ID card system at the
Interz0ne.com conference last April.
Blackboard Inc. got wind of the talk on the supposed shortcomings of its Blackboard Transaction System and filed suit against the pair.
At first the case looked like a big company using lawyers to gag security researchers but subsequent reports on the case reveal something more complex was going on. For instance, the
Washington Post reports that in March Hoffman attended a trade show for campus card users as a paid consultant for Blackboard competitor NuVision Networks.
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