RE: New security threat: Back packs

["Larry Seltzer" <Larry () larryseltzer com>]

Damn, I'm impressed. She actually talked two schools into participating?
I guess the rest of the $200K went to development and hosting. Makes you
wonder where she's going to college. I bet it's local so she can keep an
eye on her business.
 
And my question was naive, very few towns anywhere are as rich as
Newton. I lived there in the early 90's, but I probably couldn't afford
it now.
 
Larry Seltzer
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From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org]
On Behalf Of Richard M. Smith
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 10:39 PM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: RE: [funsec] New security threat: Back packs


Nope, Quincy is a notch below Newton.  
 
I bet back backs go for $10 a pop when you buy 2,000 of them.
 
Sofia somehow nailed $200K in funding:
 
http://forums.techcrunch.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=12465
 
A little about me and my site....( We just went live 2 days ago, so bear
with me, while glitches, and add-on come alone) 

Sofia Loginova, 17, of Quincy might just be the next MySpace creators
Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe. Dubbed a ?next generation? social
networking site, Loginova is ready to launch B4Class.com in (date). The
new site features popular social networking features created to attract
high school and college students as well as alumni, but with the added
benefit of free web-based SAT and GMAT tutoring. Riding the wave of
popular social networking sites like MySpace and FaceBook, B4Class.com
stands out with this free online support to students taking standardized
exams, a feature planned for its functionality and ability to add
frequency and ?stickiness? to the site?s community. 

A shrewd young entrepreneur who came to Boston in 1999 from Russia,
Sofia Loginova is a savvy Quincy High senior who managed to juggle
schoolwork with raising $200,000 in funding and negotiating licensing
rights for advanced internet technologies. 

In preliminary talks with area high schools, Loginova received
overwhelmingly positive feedback and signed up two high schools for
participation. She also assembled a board of high school and college
students to provide insight on the site?s content, design and
functionality, particularly in the SAT/GMAT testing area of the website.


Richard

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From: Larry Seltzer [mailto:Larry () larryseltzer com] 
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 9:37 PM
To: Richard M. Smith; funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: RE: [funsec] New security threat: Back packs


An 18 year old gave away 2000 custom backpacks to promote a web site?
 
Anyone know what that costs? Richard, is North Quincy as rich as Newton?
 
Larry Seltzer
eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
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http://blog.eweek.com/blogs/larry%5Fseltzer/
<http://blog.eweek.com/blogs/larry_seltzer/>
<http://blog.ziffdavis.com/seltzer> 
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
larryseltzer () ziffdavis com 
 

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From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org]
On Behalf Of Richard M. Smith
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 9:21 PM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: [funsec] New security threat: Back packs


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 -- b4class.com
<http://www.b4class.com/Help/aboutus.aspx>  -- 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 01:31 PM
<http://www.boston.com/news/globe/west/2007/04/update_web_site.html>  

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