Rhode Island Students study art of Hacking

(AP) Newport, R.I. Computer hacking is on the curriculum at
Salve Regina University.
Students are learning how to break into computers, crack
passwords, and dissect safety software. They someday hope to put the
knowledge to work tracking computer criminals.
"Culture, Computers and the Law," is offered as part of the
master's degree program in administration of Justice. All students are
law enforcement officers.
"This course is very practical," said teacher Nicholas
LundMolfese. "It's at the cutting edge of crime and technology."
As computers become more and more pervasive, it's important that
law enforcement officials know how to use them as criminals do.
"It can't be a foreign world," LundMolfese said. "If you run a
multimilliondollar drug operation, you're using computers, just like any
other business."
Students not only get the expected crash courses in the basics of
DOS, Windows, and the Internet, but read a variety of materials. On the
course reading list are writings by 19th century British philosopher and
economist John Stuart Mill and feminist and antiporography crusader
Andrea Dworkin, as well as the underground computer hacker Journal
"2600," and the book "Secrets of a Super Hacker," written by a hacker
known simply as "The Knightmare."