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[at-l] Hackers

Early this morning I posted a garbled message about WingFoot's site
suffering from hackers.  I said that maybe it was a teenager, not to
point a finger at teenagers, but these people are amazing.  In my sons
school all the computers are connected into a local area network with
its own server.  There is also a server for the Internet.  The
Internet. access is limited to teachers.  Just about every student in
the school has hacked into the Internet server and the local area
network server.  This despite sophisticated firewalls.  

My son is working with a mentor and he is writing viruses that his
mentor is trying to detect using various virus detectors.  Your virus
scan will miss approximately 80% of the viruses out there.  Be careful
what you download (Note viruses can be mailed, but just reading mail
will not infect your computer.  The most common way of infecting a
computer is downloading a self extracting program or game)

One of the problem is that the firewall technology is way behind the
hackers.  Web pages are hacked all of the time.  The most important
thing is to backup your data often.  I am sorry that WF's site was
hacked, but he was probably one of several hundred that got hacked
last week.  

Now on to good stuff.  Could not make it this weekend for the
gathering in PA, but the weather has been great and I hope all of
those in attendence enjoyed PA's world famous rocks :-)  My goal this
year besides doing approximately 60 miles in SNP is to hike all of the
AT east of I81.  I envy the class of '98 and I hope to see some of you
on the trail this year

Bob Dudley
Grey Owl
rdudley@fsi.net

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