Unclean 2

Swopped the Colosseum for a surreal night at Varsity. Met lots of randoms.

Further to my recent post about virus-writing, it seems one Canadian university is braver than I am. It sounds like something of a publicity stunt to me, though. "Whoah, man! We gotta go to Calgary and write viruses!" Frankly, I can't see how letting some students play with some old email worms is going to "delve into the cybercrime mind" at all.

"The course is open to 16 fourth-year students who must work under strict conditions in a secure lab cut off from Internet and cell- phones. Other security measures to thwart students who may have malicious intent are in the works."

Like any student who had the knowhow and inclination to develop a worm would want or need to sign up to their silly course anyway. This Slashdot post says what I'm thinking.

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