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Friday 13th June, 1997 Issue 1090
http://www.su.ic.ac.uk/Felix/
Student Newspaper of Imperial College
Full coverage of the election on page three
Superstitious? You should be... page thirteen
Exams a sham? Don't worry, be happy, page three
hSomethkigforthe Weekend: Go to a Hacker's Conference.
Gallic Geek Wins Election NEWSTEAM In a s u r p r i s e r e s u l t last night, L e o n B r o c a r d , the charismatic editor o f the D o C s o c magazine Data, stormed to victory to become the new president o f I C U . H i s popular C o o k i n g and C r a c k i n g c a m p a i g n ensured that 8 3 % o f the electorate put a cross to his name, w h i c h , g i v e n that over 9 7 % o f eligible students turned out to vote means that he is by far the most popular U n i o n president in the history o f this college.
and a general improvement of the style o f I C i n order to compliment the notoriously fashionable areas o f Chelsea and Knightsbridge. Although unspecific about the " C r a c k i n g ' part o f his c a m p a i g n he hinted that students s h o u l d be e d u cated in what he calls the more i n t e r e s t i n g side o f computing.
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He was unavailable for c o m m e n t this morning; a spokesperson announced that Mr B r o c a r d would issue a f o r m a l stateD u r i n g the hustings o f ment at a later M o n d a y night he was eva- date but was, sive about the exact me- at the moment, chanics o f his scheme and " f e e l i n g a bit refused to be drawn on is- fragile". What drove his bid for the sues such as the N U S , the top seat was a wish to "raise B e i t Q u a d refurbishment the sartorial profile" o f the and the imminent medics U n i o n and bring "a bit o f move to the B M S building A. H A C K E R claa" back to IC. He prombut was overheard saying to It transpires that sometime ised better food for all ar- a friend that "the bloody during Friday afternoon a eas o f catering on campus b e e r ' l l be cheaper a n ' a l l hacker entered the Student U n i o n computer network using a combination o f a technique called IP spoofL E O N A R D O D.V. ing and a unforseen security hole in the U n i x opFears were g r o w i n g last tion w i l l have to be taken eration sytem enviroment. n i g h t that the Q u e e n ' s soon or the Tower itself, a Although details are shady Tower has started to lean to symbol o f Imperial's heritat the moment it appears one side. This has been a age, m a y have to c o m e that he l o g g e d o n as a p r o b l e m w i t h the recent down. It is now hoped that sytem administrator and years of drought, but it was the same technology used altered some o f the proalways considered unlikely in stopping the movement grams used to look after that it would get as bad as of the L e a n i n g T o w e r o f the main hub, possibly one it now has. Sources have Pisa, developed here at I C , linked to various accountbeen quoted as saying that can be used to right our own ing sytems s u c h as the it is now so serious that acunstable structure.
Union Network manipulated
The Tower Leans!
datbase of exam results that is kept in Sherfield and the automated collating sytem used d u r i n g U n i o n elections. It also appears that a link was made to the 'Lost W o r l d ' Web page although this has yet to be proved. Catching the perpetrator w i l l "prove difficult i f not impossible as the intruder c o v e r e d h i s d i g i t a l footprints w e l l " ; the break in was only discovered when a U n i o n official noticed that he was already logged in from a remote site in Brazil and raised the alarm.