Courses/Computer Science/CPSC 601.65.Cyberwar.F2012/Lecture Notes

= 11 Sept 2012: Introduction =

This will be a 1 hour organizational meeting. We will:


 * Introductions
 * Social contract
 * Books to buy or download (for now):
 * Ars Technica "Unmasked"
 * Civil Disobedience, Thoreau
 * Cyberdeterrence and Cyberwar, Martin C. Libicki
 * I will provide digital or photocopies of other book excerpts and articles.
 * Review the course policies
 * Review course structure
 * Read articles
 * Bring points for discussion
 * later class sessions will be in a debate format
 * some guest speakers and videos
 * Assessment
 * blog essays
 * debate performance
 * class participation (blog comments, showing up, etc.)
 * Blog, Wiki, Piazza
 * if you have not received an invite to the course blog, send me your GMail email (or a new one)
 * watch wiki; feel free to participate w/ links and pointers
 * Piazza is mostly for announcements, internal class discussions and things you'd otherwise email me.
 * Discuss Blog Essays Assignments (each week, two students will be responsible (as identified on the schedule above) for writing a brief blog entry essay on a topic of their choosing. All students are responsible for reading and commenting (and engaging with other comments) on these posts.
 * schedule not posted on purpose
 * we will meet in ICT 616
 * ebooks or books (get them if you want them for your own shelf)

Student Action Items
 * 1) make sure you have a blog account
 * 2) sign up for Piazza
 * 3) find a debate team
 * 4) watch wiki for readings (to be discussed two weeks from now)
 * 5) watch wiki for essay assignments
 * 6) show up next week for 2 video lectures

= 18 Sept 2012: Cyberwar Videos =

= 25 Sept 2012: Ethical Considerations and Definitions =

Agenda:


 * 1) Ethical considerations: a discussion of what ethical principles should guide the studies in this course
 * 2) discussion of readings
 * 3) Background on Security
 * 4) Focus question: What is security? (Wordle)
 * 5) Defining the term "cyberwar"
 * 6) Focus question: What is "cyberwar"?

Discussion Questions:


 * What can we legitimately call cyberwar activity?
 * What is a cyberweapon?
 * Convince me that cyberwar is a significant threat.
 * Convince me that cyberwar is likely in the near future.

Links
 * http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/privacy/privacy_pia_ops_publiclyavailablesocialmedia.pdf