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da_foz

Sat Feb 05, 2005 4:40 pm


University to offer e-mail spam course

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http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/02/05/email-course050205.html

In a nutshell, the University of Calgary will offer a course on how to write programs that create spam and then look at ways to combat these program. 


My thoughts:
Is it possible this course will be abused?  Yes
Is it cool to learn about this stuff?  Yes
Could it lead to new ways of fighting spam?  Yes

At Queen's they introduced a course this year on Datamining.  I am not taking it unfortunatly, crappy time slot.


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Hikaru79

Sun Feb 06, 2005 1:26 am



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This is the same university that offered a course last year/semester on how to write viruses :P Interesting stuff.


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Tony

Sun Feb 06, 2005 11:45 am



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just make sure that highschool kids don't sneak into those courses. They can't really be legally charged untill they turn 18. Just loose computer privilages :?


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Hikaru79

Sun Feb 06, 2005 10:07 pm



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just make sure that highschool kids don't sneak into those courses. They can't really be legally charged untill they turn 18. Just loose computer privilages :?

No way.. are you serious? Are you saying that if I set up a spam server/wrote a virus before the next two years are up, worst I can get is lost computer priveleges? 

Oh wait... that's worse than being legally charged... darn it =/


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wtd

Sun Feb 06, 2005 11:11 pm



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just make sure that highschool kids don't sneak into those courses. They can't really be legally charged untill they turn 18. Just loose computer privilages :?

No way.. are you serious? Are you saying that if I set up a spam server/wrote a virus before the next two years are up, worst I can get is lost computer priveleges? 

Well, if you do it right, some company will offer you $$$ to tell them how you did it.  :)


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Tony

Sun Feb 06, 2005 11:44 pm



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Well, if you do it right, some company will offer you $$$ to tell them how you did it.  :)
that's probably the idea behind the University course.. I wouldn't be surprised if students had to sign release papers for all of material produced :think: