CS 15

CS 15 -- Homework 9

email paper to cfk@cs.swarthmore.edu by noon Monday, Nov. 3

  1. Read P&P pp. 307-372
  2. Read S (Stephenson, "Cryptonomicon") pp. 671-758.
  3. Pay particular attention to S pp. 703, 744, 747, 757.
  4. Read FBI sees rise in computer crime
  5. Read Emerging Cyber Threats Report for 2008
  6. Read Study: Unpatched PCs compromised in 20 minutes
  7. Go to Computer Emergency Respose Team Center vulnerability notes and explore a little. Click on and read some recent vulnerabilityes.
  8. Read Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for October, 2008 . Click on critical and read the critical vulnerabilities.
  9. Read Alarm raised on security flaw in Internet's basic structure
  10. Read Mossberg PC Users Deserve A Free, Simple Service To Handle All Threats For this link you must be logged in from Swarthmore.
  11. Read Stop Being a Victim and some of the discussion following it.
  12. The 1-2 page paper

    Please send your paper to: cfk@cs.swarthmore.edu

    Walter Mossberg ("PC Users Deserve A Free, Simple Service To Handle All Threats") and Tim Mullen ("Stop Being A Victim") disagree. What do you think? Think about this and write a page or two on this controversy giving your opinion and justifying it.

    Finally suggest one or two topics that you would like to see addressed in seminar this week.

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