New security threat: Back packs

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/west/2007/04/update_web_site.html

Monday, April 9, 2007


Update: Web site founder denies involvement in prank


NEWTON

The 18-year-old founder of a new teen social networking site insists that
she had nothing to do with four suspicious backpacks that prompted the
evacuation of a Newton North High School parking lot and a visit from the
State Police Bomb Squad this morning.

Sofia Loginova, a senior at North Quincy High School, said she first heard
about the incident when she was met by a Quincy Police officer who
questioned her as she arrived at school.

The backpacks bearing the name of her web site --
<http://www.b4class.com/Help/aboutus.aspx> b4class.com -- were found stuffed
with shredded newspaper, hanging from a fence on the Walnut Street side of
the campus. Loginova said she has given away about 2,000 of the promotional
backpacks, mostly at Faneuil Hall.

Loginova said she is "horrified" that officials are comparing the incident
to a publicity stunt in January that shut down roads in Boston, Cambridge,
and Somerville as authorities investigated nearly 40 small, light-up
devices. The devices turned out to be part of a guerilla advertising
campaign for a Cartoon Network show, "Aqua Teen Hunger Force."

"I don't know who did it and it sucks that my name is being associated with
it," she said. "I don't want to be compared with that [the Cartoon Network
stunt] and its not at all how I want my site to be seen. I completely
understand how people might feel about it and I feel horrible that this
happened. But I don't know how it happened."

Loginova says her site, which went live on Wednesday, has about 500 users.
She said she does not have outside marketing help, and that she has been
relying mostly on word-of-mouth and the bag giveaways to publicize the
launch.

-- Ralph Ranalli

Posted by the Boston Globe City & Region Desk at
<http://www.boston.com/news/globe/west/2007/04/update_web_site.html> 01:31
PM 

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