Fall 1997
Course Calendar
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| Sept 2 Registration Day |
Sept 4 First class |
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| Sept 9 Background on computer crime law: 18 USC 1030; ECPA; Morris Internet worm |
Sept 11 Computer crime cases: Steve Jackson Games; Chaos Computer Club; LaMacchia indictment |
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| Sept 16 Computer law enforcement Guest: Scott Larson, FBI Computer Investigations and Infrastructure Threat Assessment Center |
Sept 18 Perspectives on computer crime: Mitnick arrest; information warfare; “Them and us” |
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| Sept 23 Computer crime Guest: Mark Rasch, Center for Information Protection, SAIC |
Sept 25 Background on US Constitutional Law |
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| Sept 30 Pornography on the Internet The Communications Decency Act of 1996 |
Oct 2 Internet censorship and content control Platform for Internet Content Selection |
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| Oct 7 The Internet and civil liberties Guest: Mike Godwin, Electronic Frontier Foundation |
Oct 9 Background on US intellectual property law |
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| Oct 14 International, legal, and social issues on the Web Guest: Jim Miller, World Wide Web Consortium |
Oct 16 Intellectual property cases |
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| First term paper due Friday, October 17 | ||
| Oct 21 Intellectual property cases Guest: Michelle Lee, Fenwick & West |
Oct 23 Copyright and digital information Guest: Jessica Litman, Wayne State University |
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| Oct 28 Background on cryptography |
Oct 30 Politics of cryptography |
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| Nov 4 Constitutionality of mandatory key escrow |
Nov 6 The Internet and democracy Guest: Jerry Berman, Center for Democracy and Technology |
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| Nov 11 No class: Veterans’ Day |
Nov 13 Cryptography and national security Guest: John Deutch, MIT, former Director of Central Intelligence |
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| Nov 18 US Privacy Law |
Nov 20 Privacy and the Internet |
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| Nov 25 Privacy and the Internet Guest: Simson Garfinkel, author and columnist |
Nov 27 No class: Thanksgiving |
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| Dec 2 International issues Guest: Deborah Hurley, Harvard University Kennedy School of Government |
Dec 4 Privacy and genetics |
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| Dec 9 MIT’s draft student information policy |
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| Second term paper due Tuesday, December 9 |
Student Papers
| Guang-Ien Cheng | Visions in Conflict: Understanding the Debate Over Internet Rating and Blocking Schemes |
| Douglas De Couto | Patel v. Richey: Two Distinct Outcomes, But the Same Problems Remain |
| Cyrus Dolph | Hot Nasty PICS? |
| David Fillingham | A Comparison of Digital and Handwritten Signatures |
| David Fillingham | Listening in the Dark – Wiretapping and Privacy in America |
| Michael Kim | How countries handle computer crime |
| Igor Lyubashevskiy | PICS Standard: A Panacea or the Doom of the Internet? |
| Joanna Lu | Dissent in Reno v. ACLU: Seeds sown for a new generation of regulation? |
| Joanna Lu | Who’s in our Genes?: Electronic Health Information and the Protection of Privacy |
| Eve Phillips | The Future of Content |
| Benjamin Self | The Media’s Miscommunication: What exactly is the Internet? |
| Andrew Twyman | The Threats of Distributed Cracking |