NYU-Poly professor Nasir Memon, director of the InformationSystems and Internet Security laboratory, says the goal is to teach aggressive tactics beyond the classroom, while staying inside the boundaries of the law.
He started American InformationSystems, an Internet access firm, while at Princeton and also helped to launch other websites, including ProFlowers.com.
Grady figured he would have a decent business if he could unify these services with some clever use of XML, the Internet software language that standardizes the exchange of information among different computer systems.