ssbrasher's blog

I found the security section of this course to be particularly interesting. I had no idea that a hacker at one time was a good thing. I was always told that hackers were the cause of the, pain in the butt, viruses that invade my PC on a regular basis. And even though I had heard of most of the problems that hackers can give a average user with their malwear, I never realized how many different ways they could invade a computer. This whole section really make me want to be evermore cautious about what kind of information I leave on my computer and make sure my virus protection stays up to date. On a lighter note, I would have loved to see the phone phreaks in action. The idea of calling someone using a toy from a box of cerial is almost cartoonish. I guess you just had to be there.