UIC CS 491/Kent Law Special Topics on Security: Reading Assignments

• Week of January 12: Introduction to law for UIC students only
  • MGM v. Grokster
  • Optional: Tutorials on American Law: Go to www.kentlaw.edu/classes, click on “Richard Warner,” click on “Introduction to American law.”
• Week of January 19:
  • Asimov, "The Dead Past", distributed to class.
  • Warner, The Problem of Mass Surveillance (this and all the rest of the readings for this week are up at Prof. Warner's course web site)
  • Warner, Why Mandating Consent Will Not Work
  • Helen Nissenbaum, Privacy as Contextual Integrity
  • Dwyer v. American Express
  • Daniel Solove, A Taxonomy of Privacy
  • Bartow, “A Feeling of Unease about Privacy” (a response to Solove) (recommended)
  • Topheavy Studios, Inc. v. Jane Doe (recommended)
  • Remsberg v. Docusearch, Inc. (recommended)
• For Tuesday, January 26
  • Sloan and Warner, The Economics of Liability for Unauthorized Access.
  • Hal Varian on price discrimination, choice of:
    • "Price discrimination" (longer, slightly mathematical) Chapter in Handbook of industrial organization, Course Google Group, File Varian1989.pdf.,
    • Differential Pricing and Efficiency, first monday, 1996.
  • A. Odlyzko, "Privacy and the Clandestine Development of E-Commerce", in ICEC '07: Proceedings of the ninth international conference on Electronic commerce, Course Google Group, file Odlyzko2007.
• For Thursday, January 28
  • A. Odlyzko, Economics, Psychology and Sociology of Security, in Financial Cryptography: 7th International Conference, FC 2003, Lecture Notes in Computer Science #2742, Springer, 2003, pp. 182-18, Course Google Group, file Odlyzko2003.
  • Anderson book, Chapter 25.5, Risk Management
• Probably will start Thursday January 28, maybe not until following Tuesday:
  • Warner and Sloan, Primer on the Internet
• Starting sometime week of February 1: Privacy: What Technology has changed:
  • Hal Ableson, Ken Ledeen, and Harry Lewis, Blown to Bits: Your Live, Liberty and Happiness After the Digital Explosion, available from http://www.bitsbook.com/excerpts/, Chapter 2, Naked in the Sunlight.
  • Kids 8 to 18 are online all the time
• Tuesday, February 9
  • Facebook's recent change in privacy settings: the facts
    • http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/09/facebook-rolls-out-new-privacy-settings
    • http://trueslant.com/KashmirHill/2009/12/17/did-facebook-break-the-law-when-it-changed-privacy-settings/
    • http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/17/privacy-group-files-complaint-on-facebook-privacy-changes/
  • And the complaint in the recently filed lawsuit against Facebook: http://epic.org/privacy/inrefacebook/EPIC-FacebookComplaint.pdf
  • Optional: Excellent roundtable discussion of Facebook's rule in roughly early 2009 policy to take ownership of user content, since rescinded: http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/18/facebook-rules/
• For Tuesday February 9 if possible, else for Thursday February 11: Foundations of Information Security
  • Anderson book, Chapter 1–2.2, 25.1–25.2
• For Thursday, February 18: Economics and Information Security:
  • Anderson, Chapter 7
  • Schneier, "A Lemons Market for Security," http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-0705.html#1
  • Anderson and Moore, "Information security: where computer science, economics and psychology meet," Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 2009, Sections 5–8. On course's Google Group site. (Sections 1–4 have very large overlap with the book chapter.)
  • And a little on Psychology on Information Security: Anderson, Chapter 2.3.
• Week of February 23: Readings from Prof. Warner.
• Tuesday March 2:
  • Inevitability of Software Flaws: Anderson 25.3 (and remember the start of this chapter)
  • Legal Responses to same: Readings from Prof. Warner
• Thursday, March 4: Prediction markets. 3 Readings, all including Wolfers and Zitzewitz among the author list, all available from http://bpp.wharton.upenn.edu/jwolfers/research.shtml#PM
  1. "The Promise of Prediction Markets," Arrow, Forsythe, Gorham, Hahn, Hanson, Ledyard, Levmore, Litan, Milgrom, Nelson, Neumann, Ottaviani, Schelling, Shiller, Smith, Snowberg, Sunstein, Tetlock, Tetlock, Varian, Wolfers and Zitzewitz, Science, 320, p.877, May 16 2008.
  2. Wolfers and Zitzewitz,, "Five Open Questions About Prediction Markets, Working Paper.
  3. Wolfers and Zitzewitz, "Prediction Markets," Journal of Economic Perspectives, 18(2), Spring 2004
• For March 30: ProCD v. Zeidenberg
• For March 30 and April 1: Authentication, Passwords, Protocols: Anderson book, Chapters 2 and 3, omitting last section of Chapter 3.
• Tuesday, April 6: Access control and cryptography
  • Anderson, Chapter 4, skipping section 4.3 on hardware
  • Anderson, Chapter 5.1-5.3
  • Abelson et al. Blown to Bits, Chapter 5 ("Secret Bits")
• Thursdays April 15 and 22: Malware, Network attacks and defenses, firewalls: Anderson, Chapters 6.3.4 and all of 21.
• Final week:April 25-30:
  • Tuesday: eBay v. Bidders' Edge, distributed via email
  • Thursday: Anderson, Chapter 23: Terror, Justice, and Freedom

-- Main.sloan - 23 Jan 2010