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."

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Re:speaking of penetration...

[Ihmhi]

I'm from Newark, NJ, you insensitive clod!

...no really, I am. It's not as bad as people think.

There's basically five wards of the city: Central, North, East, West, and South. The East Ward (more famously known as The Ironbound) is a very nice old school neighborhood. Not always quiet but there aren't any crack dens.

The Central Ward is downtown, where we have a stadium (hosting the NJ Devils, Seton Hall Pirates, and a bunch of concerts) and a lot of good bars and shops.

The other three wards pretty much ARE the run down, people-getting-shot areas. I'm fortunate to leave in the good part of Newark.