Information Privacy with Applications (Fall 2018)
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Quick Information
| Instructor: | David Sidi |
| Office Location: | HARV 456 / HARV 454 |
| Office Hours: | TBD |
| Telephone: | (520) 621-5703 |
| Email: | dsidi@email.arizona.edu |
| PGP Fingerprint: | E622 43FC 0F47 135B 28F0 02C4 8496 9123 EEBA 8245 |
| Home page: | https://u.arizona.edu/~dsidi/ |
| Live question tool: | https://sidiprojects.us/live_questions |
| Grades: | https://d2l.arizona.edu/ |
More information is in the syllabus
Assignments
Assignment 0: Quick exercises in the shell
There is no deadline for this assignment, as it will not be turned in for a grade, but you should try to get it done in the next day or two.
Assignment 0 - A few quick exercises in the shell, to get used to things.
Class Sessions
Why care about privacy?
Lectures
Lecture 1: Course introduction - we will get to these slides on Thursday
Readings not linked in the syllabus
Stephens-Davidowitz, Everybody lies (excerpt)
Other things mentioned in class
- More on the RockYou password breach (old)
- Preparation for implementing some cryptographic primitives in Python
- MIT researchers with a good sense of humor -- $250K network analyzer used to look into the efficacy of aluminum hats in attenuating radio frequencies entering and exiting the head. (Crackpots have long wondered about mind control using radio signals).