Posted on 08/04/2008 1:11:43 PM PDT by LibWhacker
George Ledin teaches students how to write viruses, and it makes computer-security software firms sick.
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. And 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. And their professor, George Ledin, has showed them how to penetrate even the best antivirus software.
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You’re on the wrong thread, goofball. :-)
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You can use google to learn all about successful penetration techniques, and also to learn about techniques that will fail or get you caught in short order. Without context, thought and analysis the noise returned with your search results will definitely outweigh the signal. I think there is nothing wrong with what this professor is doing, it’s the equivalent to US biodefense research. Hopefully he is vetting his students for criminal backgrounds though.
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