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

25 Sept 2012: Ethical Considerations and Definitions

Agenda:

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