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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.
"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.
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?