Computer Club at WMU meeting minutes for February
Minutes taken by hammer.
Attendance
crosstangent rezenee king hammer zathras sphinx keysboard tinkieslayer alu acp patty gir flay typo phet
WMU Info
summer registration open now
Reach out to stevie
volunteer for scott this saturday 10-2 scot needs 4 people to help with kid wind event
CClub Stuff
Book club every other wednesday classic white papers in CS & the dark forest
Board Games Board games on mondays
hackathon
Date march 23rd and 24th
Location we do not know, maybe sangren, maybe kohrmen
Funding must provide a list of student members, full names, and expected grad dates send name, email, grad date to crosstangen goal: 31 people Deadline: 9th of this month
Vault Re-Keying
is you use vault it may go down
computer crimes
talk by alu what is computer crim using a computer to do illegal things
Laws title 18 computer fraud and abuse act
terms Protect computer without authorization: not defined Exceeds auth acces: insiders mesing with stuff they shouldn’t
cases moris worm aron schwartz
moris worm robert moris created the first internet worm only targeted a specific version of unix released november 2nd 1988 at MiT 6,000 computers in 24 hours 1/10th internet infected 1 in every 7 times the flag hits a computer it gets reinfected worm that fork bombed a computer us government thought there was an attack used send net and finger for us programs (and gets)
united states v moris his friend called the NY times and told them asked how much trouble he would get in he was tracked down with finger
what did moris do he intentionally accessed a computer and damaged it causing over a million in damage the court argued he did not intentionally caused damage the court argued that he had been given access to university computers moris was convicted and given community service a fine and probation
Erin Schwartz reddit, markdown and other stuff guy arrested for breaking into an unlocked network closet at MiT
Whats the crime he created a program to scrape articles he used burner laptops and used the mit network he also made ghost accounts that specific MiT IP got banned of of Jstore eventually all MiT network banned from Jstore they arrested him
civil suite aron would return everything to Jstore state charges and suite droped
federal pros wire fraud, computer fraud, damaging a protected computer ofered a lot of plea deals not looking good for erin he got a second lawer who got him slightly better
preposed reform define the terms so they cannot be misused three part proposal no prision time for terms of service violation protect tinkers, researchers and others punishment should fit the crime supremem court clarified exceeds access DOJ now protects good faith research prosecuters must check in with CCIPS before computer crime
