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Students Learn To Write Viruses
snocrossgjd writes "In a windowless underground computer lab in California, young men are busy cooking up viruses, spam and other plagues of the computer age. Grant Joy runs a program that surreptitiously records every keystroke on his machine, including user names, passwords, and credit-card numbers. Thomas Fynan floods a bulletin board with huge messages from fake users. Yet Joy and Fynan aren't hackers — they're students in a computer-security class at Sonoma State University. Their professor, George Ledin, has showed them how to penetrate even the best antivirus software."
Sweet, another person spamming my boards! And no education isn't an excuse.
I love the smell of burning karma in the morning.
Smells like... victory.
> Their professor, George Ledin, has showed them how to penetrate even the best antivirus
> software.
That and $.10 will get you a year's supply of fake Viagra.
Warning: this article may contain humor, sarcasm, parody, and perhaps even irony. Read at your own risk.
I'd like to take a course on penetration. I might actually learn something.
Well, they said it was a windowless class, so I guess it's higher than entry level.
Only his tendency toward a dazed stupor prevented him from screaming aloud.
Use your imagination.
"In a windowless underground computer lab in California, young men are busy cooking up viruses" it's IMPOSSIBLE! Viruses need Windows and they won't run in a Windowsless environment.
This guy is teaching cyber-terrorism !!
The SAS could take out any one of these training camps.
Kill everybody there, and be gone before the echo fades.
I'd like to take a course on penetration. I might actually learn something.
Unlike college courses, those 'teachers' charge by the hour.
Though if you are in college, you could take it as an... extracurricular.
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
Thomas Fynan floods a bulletin board with huge messages from fake users.
Ah-hah! Got ya!
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Or just do some petty crime so you get to spend some quality time in county -- the course is free, and apparently not an elective.
Zing!
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
Trying to get the public, the mainstream, to start using 'cracker' instead of 'hacker' may not end well for some. The next time a group of black guys yell, "Hey what you looking at cracker?", a cs student may think they are actually complimenting his/her computer skills and approach them to thank them for their kind words.
"Unlike college courses, those 'teachers' charge by the hour"
Do they provide "hands on" training as well?
I find I often can learn a lot more from "hands on" training.
Yes, but all tests are orally administered.
512 MB RAM, 20 GB disk, 200 GB transfer, five datacenters. $19.95/month.
I don't believe it is windowless. Having Windows is the best way to perpetuate viruses!