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...Guzman never got academic credit for "E-mail Password Sender Trojan." But the proposal's mangled syntax--de Guzman described a program that "catched and retrieved all lose passwords that users can enjoy"--was a dead giveaway. The proposal appears to have been a blueprint for the Love Bug virus that wreaked havoc on e-mail systems around the world, from the Pentagon to the British Parliament, and caused as much as $15 billion in damage. The skinny 23-year-old de Guzman came out of hiding last week for a press conference at which he came close to admitting...
When Onel de Guzman's thesis proposal, titled "E-mail Password Sender Trojan," was rejected by Manila's AMA Computer College in February, the thesis committee gave a distinctly nonscholarly reason. "This is illegal!" the school's dean fumed. De Guzman wanted to write a program to "steal and retrieve Internet accounts of the victim's computer," allowing people to use those stolen log-ins to access the Internet free. The response from a faculty member, scrawled in the margin of the page: "We do not produce burglars...
...National Rifle Association did something odd last week, even by its standards. Responding to the Million Mom March in Washington for gun control, the N.R.A. presented television and newspaper ads in which its president, Charlton Heston, and an "N.R.A. mom" announced a new challenge program. "We're putting up the first $1 million to put gun-safety education in every classroom," said Heston. The N.R.A. mom added, "That's a million N.R.A. moms challenging a million more moms just like...
...kids' lunch boxes. But I know an impressive "outreach" initiative when I see one. The Philip Morris Co. has been engaging in similar efforts for the past year or so. The tobacco and so-much-more company has new ads proclaiming its support of the "We Card" program to prevent children from buying cigarettes. In the ad, a bunch of kids dressed for a prom attempt to buy smokes from a kindly yet firm store owner, who tells us that belonging to the We Card program makes it easier for him to turn down the kids. There is a lacuna...
...return to Planet Earth, what if the liquor dealers of America were to create a challenge program for the best driver's education program in the country? It would be in line with their campaign against mixing drinking and driving and in favor of using a designated driver. The only trouble with the idea of a designated driver, who is sober, is that it distracts one's attention from the passengers, who may be headed back to wife and family stewed to the gills and ready to come out swinging. If the liquor businesses were interested in full disclosure, their...