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On the air again
Following a three-year hiatus, Johns Hopkins student radio
made a triumphant return late last month, but not to the
airwaves: This time around, cyberspace is the place.
Using the call letters of the
university's original student station, WJHU has been reborn
as an Internet radio offering, available at
www.hopkinsradio.com.
Those who tuned in, or more accurately
clicked on, just after midnight on April 22 heard WJHU kick
off its new era with Ozzy Osbourne's signature anthem,
"Crazy Train." For the uninitiated--or those who might
think Ozzfest refers to a L. Frank Baum tribute--the song
begins with the heavy-metal-star-turned-TV-icon, screeching
"All aboard."
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Appropriate Use of Student Social Security
Numbers
A letter to all members of the Johns Hopkins University
community from Steven Knapp, provost and senior vice
president for academic affairs, and Estelle A. Fishbein,
vice president and general counsel.
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Behavior and Health: New at
SPH
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
announced on Friday that it will establish a new department
to study human behavior and health. It is a unique
interdisciplinary approach dedicated to directly
identifying why people behave the way they do and how to
most effectively change these behaviors to dramatically
improve health. The department will develop new ways to
prevent behaviors that are associated with the leading
causes of illness and premature death in the United States
and other parts of the world.
The School of Public Health will create
its new Department of Behavior and Health with a $20
million gift from a donor who does not wish to be
identified.
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Hackers could use online forms to create
chaos, study finds
Most experts on computer crime focus on attacks against Web
servers, bank account tampering and other mischief
confined to the digital world. But by using little
more than a Web search engine and some simple software, a
computer-savvy criminal or terrorist could easily leap
beyond the boundaries of cyberspace to wreak havoc in the
physical world, a team of Internet security researchers has
concluded.
Avi Rubin, technical director of the
Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins, was among
the researchers who, at a recent Association for Computing
Machinery conference on privacy in an electronic society,
described how automated order forms on the Web could be
exploited to send tens of thousands of unwanted catalogs to
a business or an individual. Such an onslaught would not
only pose problems for the victim, but it could also
paralyze the local post office charged with making such
deliveries, the researchers suggested. After explaining how
such attacks could take place, the researchers proposed
several technological "fixes" that could help prevent them.
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