University to offer e-mail spam course

[da_foz]

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.

[Hikaru79]

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

[Tony]

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

[Hikaru79]

tony wrote:

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 =/

[wtd]

Hikaru79 wrote:

tony wrote:

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.

[Tony]

wtd wrote:

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