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

18 Sept 2012: Cyberwar Videos

Agenda:

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

Discussion Questions:

Links