Naval Postgraduate School
Fall 2008
Mon Sep 29, 2008
Introduction
Welcome to CS4920
- What we're trying to do---automated processing of captured media & network traffic.
- Stored Data and file systems.
- Bits, bytes, blocks, sectors, pages
- Network traffic
- Working with Real Data in academia: IRBs and Human Subject Compliance
This is a papers course:
- Different between a course paper, a research paper, a magazine article, and a book
- How to use the academic literature
This is a tools course:
- Operating Systems - Linux, MacOS, and even Windows
- Programming Languages: C/C++, Java, Python
- Content Control: Subversion, Unison & Rsync
- Focus on Usability - Why, and what it means
- Backups - Be sure to make them!
This is a collaboration course:
- Movable Type or something else?
- Wiki
- Where - our server, or elsewhere?
Reaings
- Garfinkel, S. "Document and Media Exploitation," ACM Queue, November/December 2007
- Garfinkel, S. "Data Fusion," Scientific American, September 2008.
- Garfinkel, S., "IRBs and Security Research: Myths, Facts and Mission Creep", Usability, Psychology and Security 2008 (Co-located with the 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation (NSDI '08)), San Francisco, CA. April 2008. [slides]
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