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Broadcasting Five Towns by Giancarlo Estrada The Newspaper of Five Towns College, Dix Hills, New York April 2017 BROADCASTING FIVE TOWNS by Giancarlo Estrada There are a lot of changes going on around campus. So far the college has redone the gym floors, revived the athletics program, and converted the Career Services office into a new radio station, leaving behind what Mass Communications may have considered a broom closet. This improvement has given students and faculty the ability to transmit their ideas, music, and podcasts via the use of professional equipment. Before these improvements, Mass Communication students learned the theoretical aspects of their major without the ability to practically apply what they have learned within a school environment. The new radio and televi- sion stations, partnering with the athletic program, allow students to work in an environment that replicates a profes- sional setting. Continued on page 7 The Black Box theater has been converted into a broadcasting room but, at what cost? Photo by Kashawn Hernandez RUN THE SPRING CHARTS STYLE pg. 3 GIRLS IN GUIDE THE BOYS pgs. 6 & 7 CLUB pg. 4 FACULTY BUSY Off-Campus RECENT WORK pg. 5 Page 2 The Record WHo’s WATCHING YOU? by Matthew Charran This release came with five documents that give detailed explanation and use for each of the three Last month, on March 7 and March 23, WikiLeaks different types of malware programs the CIA EDITORIAL The Record began its new series of leaks on the CIA, a series uses. Program 1 is the CIA’s infector titled “Sonic www.ftc.edu codenamed Vault 7. The first release is about the Screwdriver” which explained by the CIA as a “mech- CIA’s program, Year Zero, which is comprised of anism for executing code on peripheral devices while 8,761 documents and files about a network inside the a Mac laptop or desktop is booting.” The second CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence (CCI). program is titled “DarkSeaSkies” and is explained by the CIA as “an implant that persists in the EFI The Five Towns College Year Zero is the CIA’s new hacking team and is now firmware of an Apple MacBook Air computer.” The Record is published by: being compared to the NSA. The team is essentially third program is titled “Triton” which is a MacOSX an agency within an agency. Their job is to produce malware which allows the CIA to make your network malware, Trojans, and other viruses to hack into both connection a beacon for them and it is highly European and U.S. based products. According to Five Towns College undetectable. WikiLeaks, the CCI “had over 5,000 registered users 305 North Service Road and had produced more than a thousand hacking They have also made the same kind of malware for Dix Hills, NY 11746 systems, Trojans, viruses, and other ‘weaponized’ iPhones and are designed to be installed on factory malware. Such is the scale of the CIA’s undertaking fresh iPhones. They have been targeting the supply Phone: (631) 424-7000 that by 2016, its hackers had utilized more code than chains of iPhones of their Targets since 2008. These that used to run Facebook.” aren’t old programs either since they are still updating them since they are working on DerStarke 2.0 which Within the CCI, there’s a group that makes all of is essentially Triton 2.0. the CIA’s malware, viruses, and backdoors, called Editor-in-Chief the Engineering Development Group or EDI. Their Most of the money the government makes comes Rebecca Spina most notable attack was on Smart TVs developing from hard working tax payers and this shouldn’t be a tactic called the “fake-off ” mode. WikiLeaks what that money goes towards. The CIA uses the describes the tactic: “In ‘Fake-Off ’ mode the TV funding it gets and they create these programs with Contributing Writers operates as a bug, recording conversations in the malicious intent towards the very same people they Bobby Brooks, Matt Bugelli, room and sending them over the Internet to a covert are sworn to protect and serve. How far will they go Matthew Charran, Tom Deluca, CIA server.” with gaining intelligence? What do you consider to Giancarlo Estrada, Emily Finz, be “going too far?” Should there be a system formed WikiLeaks also stated that in October of 2014, the to limit the CIA’s potential or funding? Should the Shaun Gold, Madison Milto, CIA were looking into using the same malware to people keep an eye on an agency that was specifi- Briyahna Rice, Kristin Smith-O’Neill, infect vehicle control systems used by modern day cally designed to watch this nation’s enemies or do cars and trucks, a tactic that the CIA could potentially Annalise Thode, Andrew Viscosi they already consider the American people a threat use to “silence” anyone effortlessly. The first release to their organization? If everyone watches everyone became known as one of the biggest file dumps in than privacy will remain a fallacy and the idea of the the history of the agency. The second release detailed Contributing Photographers “right to privacy” will still just be another human more of the viruses’ names and uses and which plat- and Artists right that the world hasn’t attained yet. forms they target. This release was titled Vault 7 James Giametta, Joey Gutierrez, “Dark Matter” and it states that certain viruses are Kashawn Hernandez, used for targeting Apple Mac Firmware. Amanda Kennedy, Edvard Larose Layout Design Kimberly Ellensohn Faculty Advisors Michael Atkinson Thomas Calandrillo Contact Us [email protected] ©2017 - All Rights Reserved April 2017 The Record Page 3 EDITORIAL Friends “Forever” Staff Editorial instead because it’s easier and there is less Throughout life, you find yourself making changing every day and the people we were backstory to explain. Enough time goes by a lot of promises to a lot of people. While in high school is most certainly not all we Life after high school is certainly a chal- and enough life moments aren’t shared that they came from the heart and are made are now in college. We’ve seen more of the lenge. After spending 18 years of your life you soon feel no connection to your high with good intentions, the fact of that world and have grown into ourselves more. surrounded by people you’ve known since school friends at all. matter is that it’s not possible to keep every It makes sense that the puzzles pieces you kindergarten, you’re suddenly shipped off single one you make. Promising someone thought you and your best friend(s) were to a new environment where you most Why do we let this happen though? It’s no that you’ll be friends “forever” is not an in high school don’t quite fit together likely know no one and you have to follow secret that relationships of any level take easy feat and some people have a very anymore. As life goes on, we find new a much more intense curriculum than ever effort and interest to persevere and thrive. different sense of what “forever” means. puzzle pieces that fit our edges better than before. You’re friends with people for almost the the ones before. entirety of your short life and then once While some friendships do end for the In the beginning, you cling to the friends you’re apart, all of the seemingly strong better, some just kind of... end. There’s Even though those friendships didn’t last you made in high school for dear life. While bonds woven over time have simply unrav- no explanation or closure and it’s sad. forever, they were and still important to you may be on different campuses, you’re eled. Were these people just your friends The friendships lost through life will still who you are today. Whether it’s something all feeling the same anxiety that comes out of convenience, to get you through rock you with guilt decades later. You good or bad, you take a little bit from each with freshman year. As you become more those socially vital years of middle school invested time into this person and created friendship and what you experienced with accustomed to college though, you find the and high school, until you found someone a lot of great memories together but it them helped shape you into who and what group chat with your high school friends is better? Or do people just suck and let the just didn’t last in the long run. As sad as it you are. You have done the same for them. used less and less. You confide your secrets life in front of them get in the way of can be though, sometimes it’s just natural. and your worries with your roommate maintaining the life they left behind? Being young adults, we’re all evolving and RUN THE CHARTS CULTURE by Matthew Charran During the release of their second album, Billboard had ranked them as one of the One of the newest groups to hit the Hip top five live performances. The group Hop scene is a group called Run The has grown well in pop culture with their Jewels, or RTJ for short. The super group signature “gun and fist” pose and having consists of rapper and producer El-P, support from politician Bernie Sanders. rapper Killer Mike, and their touring DJ, Each album thus far has featured guest DJ Trackstar. spots from artists of all genres like, Big Boi of Outkast, Until The Ribbon They formed after El-P had produced Breaks, former lead singer of Rage Killer Mike’s 2012 album R.A.P Music.
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