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UTSA professor’s thrift store score becomes priceless addition to Georgia museum | UTSA Today | UTSA

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While the artwork itself was striking, so too was the crisp, clear blue signature in the painting’s lower right-hand corner. Pugh realized he had come across an original painting and immediately searched the web to find out more about Keith Bankston.

According to the Digital Library of Georgia, Bankston was born and raised in Macon. He was inspired to pursue a career in art during a trip to Paris shortly after his high school graduation. After attending Florida State, he would return to Middle Georgia to teach art in the Bibb County public schools while simultaneously working to establish himself as an exhibiting artist. However, his fledgling art career was cut short when he died from AIDS in 1992 at the age of 34.

Pugh also found that multiple Bankston paintings were part of the collection at the Tubman African American Museum in Macon, an educational and cultural hub that strives to enrich cultural understanding and present the highest quality art to the Georgia communities it serves. Upon reading about Bankston and the Tubman Museum, Pugh knew he wanted to purchase the painting. But he no longer wanted to keep it.

“I really like it. But something like this—by a known artist in Georgia—would provide the most benefit in a museum in Georgia where everyone else can enjoy it,” Pugh said.

He bought Bankston’s “Eve in the Rose Garden” for $125 and wasted no time reaching out to Jeff Bruce, the director of exhibitions for the Tubman Museum, with intentions of donating the piece. The museum was excited to hear about the painting’s existence and happy to accept his gift. The museum will add “Eve in the Rose Garden” to its permanent collection of African American art.

“Keith Bankston is a beloved figure in the art community in Macon. His story is a kind of tragic tale of what could have been—of great potential that was never fully realized due to the AIDS epidemic.” Bruce said. “His light was just beginning to shine, so we honor the promise of his talent by collecting and exhibiting his work, and by sharing the story of his short but impactful career with young people in Middle Georgia, as well as visitors…

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Hacker Recounts How He Once Broke Into Professor’s Computer to Submit Late Assignment

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Hacker Recounts How He Once Broke Into Professor’s Computer to Submit Late Assignment

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Hacker Recounts How He Once Broke Into Professor’s Computer to Submit Late Assignment

When you miss your assignment deadline by just two or four hours, you wish you could go back in time and submit your assignment before the limit –something which seems impossible. Turns out, it was not that hard for college student Robert Graham, who is now a well-known cybersecurity researcher. Talking to Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai in an episode of My First Hack series by Vice’s Cyber podcast, Graham shared an anecdote from his college when he hacked his professor’s computer to submit his late assignment in time.

Graham recollects that once when he was too late in submitting his assignment by a midnight deadline, he changed his computer’s date so that the timestamp on the assignment reads of an earlier time than it was actually submitted. But it was not long before the teachers became aware of this trickery students used. To make sure that assignments were actually assigned on time, teachers made it mandatory for students to send the assignment by email.

E-mails contain a piece of information called a header which cannot be modified. An email header contains information like sender, receiver, sent timestamp, received timestamp and other information. At this point, Graham’s trick to backdate his own computer and push the submission timestamp back in time would not work because as per his professor’s instructions, the received timestamp would be considered as the assignment submission time. When the deadline passed, and as usual Graham was late — this time by four hours –he had to have to get around this.

The university ran a Unix-based university environment, and the emails arrived on the professor’s computer rather than being on the cloud. Interestingly, Graham found a way. Around 4 am, “I grabbed a script for an exploit and ran it against their system,” says Graham on the podcast. Once the exploit gave him access to his professor’s computer, he changed the timestamp to match his assignment submission time, and once his email was received, he changed the timestamps back again.

Years later, Graham is now a noted cybersecurity researcher….

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NPS professors awarded prestigious grant to explore ethics of cyberwarfare – DVIDS

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NPS professors awarded prestigious grant to explore ethics of cyberwarfare
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NPS Assistant Professor of Philosophy Bradley “BJ” Strawser and Professor of Computer Science Neil C. Rowe are pictured outside the Naval Postgraduate School's Herrmann Hall. The National Science Foundation recently awarded Strawser and Rowe a …

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