Class structure #
Timing #
- Monday 11:30am-1:00pm: Tech lecture by Alex
- Wednesday 11:30am-1:30pm: Law lecture by Riana
- Friday 1:30pm-2:30pm: Lab section by Austin
Grading #
- 25% - weekly legal short response (due 11:59pm Tuesday)
- 25% - weekly lab assignments (due 11:00am Monday)
- 50% - exams
May be curves upward for reasonable distribution
Exams #
- Take-home exam: take between Oct 20 and Oct 24
- 4hr to complete what should be a 2hr exam
- Technical and legal topics
- Multiple-choice, short-ansewr, practical challenges from labs
- Open note and open reading
- Final exam - in person at time TBA
- Technical and legal topics - biased towards post-midterm topics
- Multiple-choice, short-ansewr, practical challenges from labs
- Open note and open reading
Offensive security #
- “Hacking”: Manipulating a system of hardware and software to do something unintended by the designer or owner of that system
- Motivations for hacking:
- Revolutions like Arab Spring, to overthrow authoritarian governments
- Authoritarian governments formed after Arab Spring, for societal control
- Nation-states, to destabilize and compete with other countries
- Individuals and organizations, either for financial (i.e., ransomware) or ideological reasons
To practice #
- Online training apps: Hack Yourself First; OWASP hacking lab
- Bug Bounty Programs
- CTFs, CPTC