Diebold's cease and desist orders approach has backfired

When we last left Diebold, they were trying to squelch some leaked memos by issuing cease and desist orders to websites who were publishing them. Among those publishing were Indymedia.com and a Swarthmore college student site called Why War?

It looked at first like the Swarthmore kids were in trouble - the school, under the cease and desist threat, had placed restrictions on students' use of computers to block access to the memos. But the site's authors apparently weren't going to roll over and play dead. Other schools and websites joined the fray. And, it appears they've turned the tables. The Electronic Frontier Foundation and Stanford University's Cyberlaw Clinic have filed a restraining order against Diebold. Ooops.