Orion
05-11-03, 10:06 PM
POSTED: 7:41 a.m. EST November 4, 2003
BERKELEY, Calif. -- Half the fun of playing with blocks is getting to wreck what you've built.
That's the idea behind a nearly $5.5 million government grant given to some California professors. The profs from the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Southern California are using the money to build a model of the Internet -- so they can wreck it.
They're trying to create better defenses against hacking. One Berkeley engineer said they can't do experiments on the real Internet, because they can't afford to break it.
The first leg of the mini-net should be up and running by February at USC. The research is funded by the National Science Foundation and the Department of Homeland Security.
Copyright 2003 by The Associated Press.
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BERKELEY, Calif. -- Half the fun of playing with blocks is getting to wreck what you've built.
That's the idea behind a nearly $5.5 million government grant given to some California professors. The profs from the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Southern California are using the money to build a model of the Internet -- so they can wreck it.
They're trying to create better defenses against hacking. One Berkeley engineer said they can't do experiments on the real Internet, because they can't afford to break it.
The first leg of the mini-net should be up and running by February at USC. The research is funded by the National Science Foundation and the Department of Homeland Security.
Copyright 2003 by The Associated Press.
I want to play too ... sniff sniff ... how do poor college students have to learn to hack with no funds ...