Court Rules in Favor of Dutch Scientists Who Cracked the Oyster Card

As promised, NXP has sued the Radboud University so that it would not publicly disclose how Wouter Teepe and Bart Jacobs managed to crack the Oyster card which uses NXP Mifare technologies. The court hearings which began on the 10th of July came to an end today when the judge ruled in favor of the university.

"Radboud University Nijmegen is pleased to learn that the judge in the preliminary injunction court in Arnhem has ruled in a summary injunction that Dr. B. Jacobs, Professor of Computer Security, may publish his article on the Mifare Classic Chip. The judge has ruled that publishing this scientific article falls under the principle of freedom of expression and that in a democratic society it is of great importance that the results of scientific research can be published. The article will be published at the beginning of October during a scientific conference in Malaga in Spain," says a