Defcon 16, which drew an audience of 9,000 public to Las Vegas by three days, is by — but the focus remains on a trio of Massachusetts Institute of Technology students who stole the spotlight at the world’s largest hacker conference.

MIT students Zack Anderson, Alessandro Chiesa, and R.J. Ryan are still blocked from revealing how they found a way to ride the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s subways free. They used weaknesses in the MBTA’s Charlie Card and

Charlie Ticket Fare system.

A restraining order stopped the trio from discussing the MBTA vulnerabilities at Defcon.

The students, who first offered to help the MBTA fix the problems, obeyed the restraining order. But printed materials for their presentation were distributed to conference attendees and slides of the presentation are on the World Wide Web.

In court filings, safety measure consultants said the materials and slides are not ample […]

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