RE: New security threat: Back packs

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

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

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