Netscape, boxers,
beer student favorites
CHICAGO— Netscape’s
Web browser is better than
Microsoft’s, and I.B.M. is sig
nificantly cooler than Apple.
Or so says a recent survey
of 1,200 college students
conducted by Student Moni
tor for a slew of private com
panies — including comput
er and software
manufacturers and tradition
al and online media corpora
tions — interested in tapping
into the college-age market.
The survey took a look at
students’ spending habits
and opinions. It found that
Web-surfing students pre
ferred Netscape over Mi
crosoft’s Explorer by a mar
gin of 58 percent to 27
percent, and that 5 percent
had bought textbooks sold
online. A whopping 80 per
cent agreed that boxers are
much cooler than briefs,
and 39 percent believed the
country is “right on track.”
Another 77 percent said
drinking beer was in, and 59
percent said the same about
body piercing. About 30
percent of students said
they performed volunteer
work, while 17 percent said
they regularly attended reli
gious services.
Among this year’s field of
presidential contenders,
Texas Gov. George Bush gar
nered the most among those
surveyed with 14 percent.
Student Monitor, based in
Ridgewood, N.J., conducts
industry-specific studies and
surveys starting at $12,000.
Don’t try looking for a copy
of this year’s full report on
line or even in the campus li
brary.
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Government seeks student help
By Jim Landers
College Press Exchange
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Uncle
Sam wants computer-savvy col
lege and high school students to
fight the nation’s information wars
against hackers, terrorists and for
eign agents.
Daily cyberattacks on federal
computers and a shortage of tech
nology talent have led the Clinton
administration to push recruitment
as part of a broad computer defense
plan to be released this month.
The Federal Cyber Service Ini
tiative includes a special cadre of
university students called the Cy
ber Corps, who would serve as
federal computer warriors in ex
change for computer-science
scholarships.
The effort spotlights what ex
perts say is a new and serious
threat: a computer-wielding ter
rorist or foreign power bringing
down the nation’s electric power
grid, air-traffic control network or
other crucial systems.
“The whole IT security threat
has been a revolution. It has put a
whole lot of pressure on federal
agencies,” said a White House na
tional security official.
The first class of 300 juniors, se
niors and graduate students
would be chosen next year, with
another 600 in 2001, according to
the official, who spoke on condi
tion of anonymity.
The initiative calls for creating
a Center for Information Technol
ogy excellence to train current fed
eral workers to meet the new secu
rity challenges.
And, the official said,’’We’re
also looking at recruiting systems
administrators right out of high
school.”
All the military service branch
es are looking for information
technology specialists, and are
having trouble retaining those al
ready on the federal payroll. Pri
vate-sector employers are offering
well-paid positions for computer
security experts.
Assistant Secretary of Defense
Arthur Money told the Senate
Armed Services Committee this
summer the Pentagon needs to of
fer incentives “such as proficiency
pay, retention bonuses, and edu
cation and training opportunities
to maintain a pool of highly
skilled workers.”
Administration officials say cy
berattacks happen every day, and
that exercises have shown wide
spread weaknesses in government
systems.
“Forget the individual hacker,
the disgruntled insider. There are
hostile nations developing, or
who have developed, offensive cy
berattack capability aimed at the
United States,” said Jeffrey Hun
ker, the National Security Coun
cil’s director of information pro
tection.
“We believe there may be some
well-funded terrorist organiza
tions that either have offensive cy
berattack capability or may easily
develop it. The same is true of or
ganized-crime elements,” he said.
Even before its formal unveil
ing, the computer defense plan is
drawing criticism from some
members of Congress and privacy
advocates.
Critics see the plan’s Federal In
trusion Detection Network as an
FBI license to snoop on Internet
traffic and e-mail.
White House and FBI officials
insist the criticism is misplaced,
describing the Fidnet merely as a
way to alert officials about com
puter intrusions.
It would cover only “a small
number of very critical systems
within the federal government,”
said another White House official
who also spoke on the condition
of anonymity.
Federal officials are still in the
dark about how many employees
they need to mount an adequate
cyberdefense. The dearth of infor
mation kept the administration
from asking Congress for funds to
launch the program this year.
The Office of Personnel Man
agement is about halfway through
a study of how many information
technology specialists now work
on computer security and how
many the government needs to
protect itself. The study is expect
ed to be finished by the spring.
The cyberdefense plan itself is
months behind schedule. For sev
eral weeks, it has been under re
view at the Justice Department.
Cyber Corps students would
work summer internships in high
security sites such as the Energy De
partment’s nuclear weapons labs.
The program is designed as a
two-year scholarship, but could
later be expanded to four years if
it succeeds, one White House offi
cial said.
Initial costs would be $50,000 to
$60,000 per student.
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Via Telnet:
This method assumes you have access to a computer that is connected to the Internet, and that the computer has
Telnet and a Web browser installed. This service is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
• Open the Web browser (either Netscape or Internet Explorer)
• In the “Location” bar in Netscape or the “Address” bar in Internet Explorer, enter
telnet://authorize.uoregon.edu
• A Telnet window should appear, with a connection to the AUTHORIZE server. At the “Username:” prompt, type
authorize (all lower case) and hit Enter. You’ll see a screen of information about AUTHORIZE, describing what
the program is and what it does. Press Enter again.
• The next screen offers you three choices: request a new account, change your password on all existing accounts, and log
out. Since your account should already be defined, select option #2 and change your password.
• Then follow the instructions from the AUTHORIZE program.
Password security: Passwords at the UO are required to be quite secure. There must be no more than 8 and no less than 6
characters in the password, and at least two of these characters must be numbers. A mixture of uppercase and lowercase
characters is acceptable. No dictionary words or any part of your name are allowed.
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This method assumes you have access to a computer that is connected to the Internet, and that the computer
has a Web browser installed. This service is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
• Open the Web browser (either Netscape or Internet Explorer).
• In the “Location” or “Address” bar at the top of the page, type http: //duckweb-uoregon.edu and press Enter.
• Click on the “Click to Login” button.
• On the next page, log in using your student ID and PAC codes.
• Once you’re connected to the DuckWeb main menu page, click on the link labeled “View UO Computing Accounts
Information.” This link will show you your initial username and password.
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