Secrets, Lies, and Digital Threats


	Fall 2008 TR 10:30-11:45 (Location TBA) Prof. Bailey Welcome to the Secrets, Lies, and Digital Threats website! We're still putting course materials together, so for now, only the course description is available. If you have questions about the course, please feel free to drop me an email and I'll get back to you right away. Thanks for your interest in Secrets! Secrets, Lies, and Digital Threats focuses on computer security issues of interest to all computer users. Using case studies and real-world examples, students will investigate the nature of digital threats, the limits of technology, and the roles we all must play in protecting and securing digital creations. The course will provide background information on computer security issues for future leaders, including those who will shape public technology policy, to understand the nature of security threats and how threats can be expected to evolve in the future. Topics will include, among others, viruses, Trojan horses, worms, cryptography, intellectual property theft, and identity theft. This course requires no computer programming.

Service Learning

This course will include a service-learning component. Students, in groups of 3 or 4, will develop a tutorial about digital threats and the Internet. Student teams will run the tutorial in a local high school.