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Jordan Osecki
Issue date: 11/30/07 Section: News
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Penn student at center of hacking investigation
A computer server crash at the University of Pennsylvania last year cut off service to 4,000 students, faculty and staff, and led technicians to call the FBI, triggering a case that involved agents from around the world and ended Penn, according to a Philadelphia Inquirer article.
Ryan Goldstein, a 20-year-old bio-engineering major, allegedly conspired with a New Zealand hacker known as AKILL to use Penn's computer system as a practice for a 50,000-computer attack against several online chat networks, according to authorities.
Goldstein, a 2005 Germantown Academy graduate who grew up in Ambler, Pa., is charged with using a fellow Penn student's username and password to gain access to the university server. Goldstein then used this access to help his New Zealand partner to carry out computer attacks.
Goldstein was arrested earlier this month on a computer fraud conspiracy charge and was released on a $10,000 bond. He pleaded not guilty and faces trial next March. Goldstein is still enrolled at Penn. If the school uses internal discipline, proceedings will be confidential.
City schools need $1 billion
Mayor-elect Michael Nutter joined students, community activists, and education advocates at a rally yesterday to call for the Philadelphia School District to get $1 billion more in funding, as recommended by a state report on the cost of an adequate public school education in Pennsylvania, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.
The rally of 100 people, mostly students, was held at Benjamin Franklin High School before a meeting of the Pennsylvania State Board of Education to explain the report's results.
The study, which was released Nov. 14, said that it would cost more than $1 billion, or $5,000 per student in the 170,000-student Philadelphia district, in order to provide an adequate education for every child. The report found that in total, the state needed $4.8 billion for all of its schools, and that the poorest districts in Pennsylvania were also the most under-funded ones.
A computer server crash at the University of Pennsylvania last year cut off service to 4,000 students, faculty and staff, and led technicians to call the FBI, triggering a case that involved agents from around the world and ended Penn, according to a Philadelphia Inquirer article.
Ryan Goldstein, a 20-year-old bio-engineering major, allegedly conspired with a New Zealand hacker known as AKILL to use Penn's computer system as a practice for a 50,000-computer attack against several online chat networks, according to authorities.
Goldstein, a 2005 Germantown Academy graduate who grew up in Ambler, Pa., is charged with using a fellow Penn student's username and password to gain access to the university server. Goldstein then used this access to help his New Zealand partner to carry out computer attacks.
Goldstein was arrested earlier this month on a computer fraud conspiracy charge and was released on a $10,000 bond. He pleaded not guilty and faces trial next March. Goldstein is still enrolled at Penn. If the school uses internal discipline, proceedings will be confidential.
City schools need $1 billion
Mayor-elect Michael Nutter joined students, community activists, and education advocates at a rally yesterday to call for the Philadelphia School District to get $1 billion more in funding, as recommended by a state report on the cost of an adequate public school education in Pennsylvania, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.
The rally of 100 people, mostly students, was held at Benjamin Franklin High School before a meeting of the Pennsylvania State Board of Education to explain the report's results.
The study, which was released Nov. 14, said that it would cost more than $1 billion, or $5,000 per student in the 170,000-student Philadelphia district, in order to provide an adequate education for every child. The report found that in total, the state needed $4.8 billion for all of its schools, and that the poorest districts in Pennsylvania were also the most under-funded ones.
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