hackers shutting down hash functions put that in your pipe and smoke it bill nye the science guy calls for change sushi on park ave piranha reviewed 10 17 08 | reportermag.com EDITOR’S NOTE TABLE OF CONTENTS 10 17 08 | VOL. 58, ISSUE 08 EDITOR IN CHIEF Laura Mandanas CAUSE FOR CONCERN MANAGING EDITOR Ilsa Shaw Change. Experience. Gender. As the economy sours and November 4 draws closer and closer, we wait COPY EDITOR Jen Loomis with bated breath, eyes transfixed on the TV.Wall Street. Main Street. Bailout. Even the least media- NEWS EDITOR Andy Rees savvy of us can’t escape the maelstrom of buzzwords flying around this political season.War. Envi- LEISURE EDITOR John Howard ronment. Abortion. Rising above the fray, however, is one particularly powerful, prevalent buzzword: FEATURES EDITOR Madeleine Villavicencio Securit y. SPORTS/VIEWS EDITOR Rachel Hart In light of recent events, it makes total sense for us to be so concerned with this on a national level. WRITERS Michael Barbato, Margaret Barlow, Geoffrey H. Still, I was mildly surprised by how prominently security issues cropped up in this week’s issue. Bliss, Alecia Crawford, Neil DeMoney, Maximiliano Herrera, Whether it concerns our parking lots (see “Grand Theft Auto Brick City,” page 8), or our computer Jen Loomis, Evan McNamara, Emily Mohlman, Chukwuma networks (see “Put That In Your Pipe and Smoke It: How Hackers are Shutting Down Hash Functions,” Morah, Andy Rees, Christopher Tosswill page 18), security is a big deal. ART As Americans, I feel like security is something that we frequently take for granted... until something ART DIRECTOR Susie Sobota goes wrong. While there are the lone few who worry about anything and everything, most of us STAFF DESIGNERS Evan Anthony, Ryan Moore, don’t trouble ourselves — even when, perhaps, we should. For example, most of us didn’t give a Kelvin Patterson thought to how regulated our market should (or should not) be until just recently. Now, everyone’s AD DESIGNER Lisa Barnes got an opinion. Would we be in this situation if there were more people actively concerning them- selves with the security of our market? Likely not. PHOTO EDITOR Eric Drummond STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS Kate Bubacz, Ben Liddle, As college students, I think we’re especially susceptible to a false sense of security. We’re a fairly Thomas Liggett, Chris Valites insulated community — many of us have barely ventured into downtown Rochester, for goodness sake. Even as we are inundated with news of global crises, most of us don’t really feel like it’s going STAFF ILLUSTRATORS Katie Anderson, to affect us. This is a big problem. Robert Modzelewski, Sara Wick CARTOONIST Michael Dennery Now, I’m not saying that we there should be widespread panic over every little thing. But if we continue to take our security for granted, we’re going to keep running into trouble. PRODUCTION PRODUCTION MANAGER Kelvin Patterson What do you think, RIT? Do you feel secure? PRINTING Printing Applications Lab President Destler shows off his electric powered bike to the Rolling Tigers Motorbike Club at their Bike Rally on October 12. Photograph by Eric Drummond. BUSINESS PUBLICITY MANAGER Lindsay Block Laura Mandanas AD MANAGER Kyle O’Neill EDITOR IN CHIEF letters to the editor pg. 06 AT YOUR LEISURE BUSINESS MANAGER Timothy Wallenhorst How long does it take to clean sex out of a couch? CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE Kaity Werner news pg. 08 features pg. 18 ONLINE GRAND THEFT AUTO: BRICK CITY HOW HACKERS ARE SHUTTING DOWN HASH FUNCTIONS ONLINE EDITOR Chris Zubak-Skees A second Honda Accord has been stolen. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. FORECAST BRICK CITY ALUMNI ADVISOR Hockey is back. Oh, how RIT has changed. Rudy Pugliese SG UPDATES New Student Center, iTunesU, YeleHaiti, and more. sports pg. 27 CONTACT RIT FINDS NEW WOMEN’S BASKETBALL COACH MAIN 585.475.2212 leisure pg. 10 Getting to know Coach Reed. 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Reporter will not run responses to letters that The Kabluey DVD was reviewed by John Howard. are responding to a letter. DEAR REPORTER, week, but I loved it. Got paid $25 a week, “screw that!” — it was weird… She wound up don’t do work” or “photo students have it easy.” work at institutions such as the National for that matter, step back and ask yourself Thank you for the great article in your and that is pretty much what I lived off of for teaching the basic photo course there after In our major, Biomedical Photographic Retina Institute, Colombia University, Fuji, what you are basing your judgments on. September 26 edition recounting Ray three years. taking it!) Communications, a lot is expected of IBM, Canon, Zeiss MiceoImaging and the As Benjamin Jilson said in last week’s letter Kurzweil’s recent talk at RIT. As a 5th year Scholastically, I was either on probation I spent 3 years at the AP, and then moved to us. In addition to microphotography and/or Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole. to the editor, “Don’t be stupid enough to judge Bioinformatics student I found him truly (didn’t give a crap about homework) or the Portland, Maine, where I am now. I freelance ophthalmic photography courses, we take Our professors expect a lot from us in an activity without actually trying it first.” inspiring and have referred to his talk so Dean’s List (did the homework), but I realized as an editorial location photographer for a numerous art, science and mathematics Biomed Photo. To be successful in this major, many times that my friends and instructors that the hands-on experience I got at Reporter variety of businesses. It’s fun. courses (including classes in digital media, we have to work very hard. It’s difficult to hear Kate Palitsch, 3rd year are getting tired of hearing me. However, was worth more than the “education” I was You probably know that Anthony Suau was calculus, medical terminology, human biology, people say otherwise, especially when the Biomedical Photographic Communications while your article was accurate, it neglected getting. I graduated with a C, but after four a Reporter photographer. He got the Pulitzer web design, and audio visual production, majority of the time, they do not even know Lynette Serbinski, 4th year to acknowledge the Caroline Werner Gannett years had a portfolio that the AP and Black in 1984 for the work he did in Ethiopia about to name a few). We learn to use variety of who we are or what we do. Biomedical Photographic Communications Project’s sponsorship of Mr. Kurzweil’s talk. Star said was very good for a college graduate. the famine there. Also covered the Russian different programs, such as Photoshop, Flash, So before you make judgments on photo I am currently taking a course based on their It wasn’t just homework — it was published. revolution, in Moscow at the White Houe the Dreamweaver, Illustrator, InDesign, and Final majors, packaging science majors, hotel speaker series, which allowed myself and a 1977 was the year we went to full color night it happened. He was a great guy, and I Cut Pro. After graduating, Biomed students management majors, or any other majors, few other students to sit down over lunch for every week, which was quite the thing at the wish I’d seen him since. an interview with him. I got to see there is time. Actually, it was fall quarter 1977, and Thomas Temin, Diane Snow, Mitch Klaif, actually remarkable amount of consideration the editor at the time fired the Photo Editor so and a lot of others are at the Washington Post, and work behind the scenes that goes into I could get the issue out. He didn’t trust the Wall St.