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Vandals target new buildings and maps
A BEEF WITH BEEF
by Kevin Forte
dramatic because it encompassed larger surfaces.” Vandals tagged the art building, The first week of classes at UNM Scholes Hall, Dane Smith Hall, a saw an unprecedented spike in the number of new campus maps, new amount of vandalism on campus, outside directories, phone poles and University maintenance officials trash cans last week, Smith said. The clean-up process took 40 said. hours and cost They said winnearly $2,000, dows were broken Smith said. and more than “The unfortufour UNM buildnate thing is that ings and 10 new in a time where we campus maps are already sufferwere tagged. ing budget woes The College of and reduced serEducation buildvices, we’re taking ing was tagged ~Gary Smith money that can with graffiti evAssociate Director for otherwise be spent ery day last week, said Gary Smith, Environmental Services for the general student body and serassociate director vices we provide for environmental services, maintenance and op- to address graffiti,” Smith said. “So, erations at UNM. He said graffiti in- how do you as a student want your cidents occur frequently in the first that we do tuition spent — on firstrate facilities, or on cleaning up vanweek of classes. “This year is no exception, but dalism that a few people are doing (the graffiti) is probably a little more that takes away from everything?”
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“We’re taking money that can otherwise be spent for the general student body.”
Dylan Smith / Daily Lobo Meggan Anderson (left) and Ashley Bryne shower across the street from McDonalds on Thursday as part of a PETA protest against meat consumption. PETA claims that producing one pound of beef costs approximately 2400 gallons of water, or six months worth of showers.
IT: SafeConnect glitch-free, don’t uninstall by Chelsea Erven
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Two members of UNM’s Computer science department wrote a letter to the Daily Lobo claiming to have found a security glitch in UNM’s network, but UNM IT said the problem has been fixed. Research assistant Jeffrey Knockel and assistant professor Jed Crandall said the problem lies in SafeConnect, a software UNM requires to be installed on both Windows and Macintosh operating systems before they can connect to University networks, including the LoboWifi network. “If you have SafeConnect
installed on your computer, then wherever you use your computer, SafeConnect attempts to connect to one of UNM’s IT servers by sending information through Internet routers,” they wrote in an Aug. 29 letter to the Daily Lobo. “We have notified UNM IT of a vulnerability in SafeConnect that allows any router between the user and UNM’s IT server to take complete control of a user’s computer that has installed SafeConnect,” they wrote. The problem is so widespread, they said, that it can be equated to a University-wide policy that requires for any computer used at the University, the user is not the
only person with access to it. “Although this policy is not written, it is the de facto policy created by the vulnerability that we recently discovered in SafeConnect,” they said. “Furthermore, anybody that you share an Internet connection with, such as the other people in your department, the coffee shop or the hotel can trick your computer into using theirs as a router.” IT Spokeswoman Vanessa Baca said Knockel and Crandall have not effectively demonstrated their concerns. “Despite IT’s requests for confirmation, Computer sciences had not demonstrated to IT that they were
Bloomberg rides out storm by Samantha Gross The Associated Press
NEW YORK — A few drops of rain fell early Saturday morning as the New York City’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg was about to talk to reporters about the encroaching Hurricane Irene. A staffer said the news conference was being moved under a nearby overhang, but somehow that never happened. After examining some flat-bottomed NYPD boats with Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, the mayor stood in the open to deliver his remarks. He barely blinked as the rain began falling harder, and spoke in a steady voice as it soaked his buttondown shirt. “Heed the warnings,” Bloomberg said as he urged that residents evacuate. “It isn’t cute to say, ‘I’m tougher than any storm’ … I hope this is not necessary, but it’s certainly prudent.” Eight months after New Yorkers blamed him for the city’s slow
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response to a paralyzing blizzard, Bloomberg hammered home the fact that he was taking Irene seriously. He made an expensive, inconvenient and politically risky call, ordering 370,000 people to leave their homes in low-lying areas. After the city ended up not seeing the urban nightmare he had warned about, he made no apologies. “We were just unwilling to risk the life of a single New Yorker,” he said Sunday, after a night he said was spent getting up to look out the window at the storm and ultimately feeling relief as he realized the city had been largely spared. “I don’t know whether (it was) because of our decisions nobody died … or maybe it was just luck, but the bottom line is, I would make the same decisions again without hesitation.” Irene caused damage from North Carolina to Vermont and left more than 20 people dead. In New York City there were downed trees, flooding and some power outages, but no deaths and no injuries as of Sunday
night, although a day later authorities said one person had drowned in the storm. Some New Yorkers complained that the hurricane — actually a tropical storm when it reached the city — had been overblown, but many others praised Bloomberg. “You can’t take the chance,” said Shafqat Ullah, back behind the wheel of his cab after riding out the storm with no incident at his Brooklyn home. “The city or other management is not controlling it. It’s nature. You can’t fight with nature.” Sara Daver, who evacuated her financial district apartment during the storm, said she thought Bloomberg had been savvy and justified. “If I was in his situation, I’d rather do too much than do too little,” she said. “If something bad had happened, it would have all been his fault.” If many New Yorkers share that view, Bloomberg may enjoy a political
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successfully able to insert malicious code into the current version of SafeConnect at the time the op-ed piece was published,” she said. Baca said the vulnerability was present in older versions of SafeConnect that have since been updated. “The most current version of SafeConnect is updated to ensure it addresses the potential vulnerability, and is available today,” she said. “Users will automatically get updated when they connect to Lobo WiFi.” When Knockel and Crandall wrote the Aug. 29 letter, they adderted that the glitch still exists. They suggested uninstalling the
software, but Baca said SafeConnect’s purpose is to keep computers secure. “IT strongly recommends that users do not uninstall SafeConnect,” she said. “The purpose of having SafeConnect is to ensure that only authorized users have access to UNM information and computing resources. Since the updated code is available today, Lobo WiFi users should simply connect to the UNM wireless network, and SafeConnect will automatically update on their systems.” IT purchased SafeConnect five years ago using its general operations fund for networks, and there will be no cost to fix the problem, Baca said.
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Zach Gould / Daily Lobo Sean Daley, aka Slug, performed at the Convention Center on Sunday. Daley is one half of the group Atmosphere, which is currently on tour promoting their new album, “The Family Sign.”
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