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Matt Bishop Office: 2209 Watershed Sciences Phone: +1 (530) 752-8060 Email: mabishop@ucdavis.edu |
Folks,
The review session is scheduled for Wednesday, December 7, at 9:00am–10:00am in room 1130 Bainer.
Also, I will hold office hours on Wednesday, December 7, at 3:00pm–5:00am in my office.
Hope this helps,
Matt Bishop
Folks,
Lab 4 has been returned. I ended up combining the robustness (style) and correctness scores, so you can get up to 80% of what you lost for that category (not for the commenting and documentation) by fixing the problems. One important note: you must visit the secure programming clinic if you have not done so yet in order to get the points back.
Go to http://spc.cs.ucdavis.edu/, click on Appointment, then on UC Davis Clinic Appointment, to schedule an appointment.
Due date is Friday, December 2.
Hope this helps,
Matt Bishop
Folks,
I have updated homework 5. Question 2 in the previous version was included erroneously. Only question 2 has been changed. Do this one, not the previous one.
Hope this helps,
Matt Bishop
Folks,
You can now sign up for lab #3 grading. Each block is 15 minutes long, and each team (not individual!) signs up for a block. Pick a time when all team members can come. If none of the listed times work, please email me to schedule another time.
The URL is for signing up is: http://doodle.com/poll/hyap7fxwti3tmpa5
Hope this helps,
Matt Bishop
Folks,
Lab 2 has been returned. I ended up combining the robustness (style) and correctness scores, so you can get up to 80% of what you lost for that category (not for the commenting and documentation) by fixing the problems. One important note: you must visit the secure programming clinic if you have not done so yet in order to get the points back.
Go to http://spc.cs.ucdavis.edu/, click on Appointment, then on UC Davis Clinic Appointment, to schedule an appointment.
Due date is next Wednesday.
Hope this helps,
Matt Bishop
Folks,
Prof. Ron Rivest (the “R” in “RSA”) will be visiting on Thursday, December 1, and will give a lecture on “Auditability and Verification of Elections”, an area in which he has been working in. I strongly encourage everyone to go. It is in 1131 Kemper Hall at 3:10pm.
Hope this helps,
Matt Bishop
Folks,
Two talks on Thursday, November 10, at 10:10am that might interest you:
These will be presented on a webinar:
The login is “guest” (without the quotes); there is no password.
The attached flyer has more details.
Hope this helps,
Matt Bishop
The Information Security Office will be hosting a talk by Christopher Thomas, a supervisory special agent in the FBI’s Sacramento Field Office, on “Confronting Cyber Threats: Cybersecurity from the FBI’s Perspective.” The talk is from 12–1 on Wednesday, October 26. This talk is for the university community, so staff, faculty and students are very welcomed. We will provide pizza and water until they run out. As for the other logistics:
Folks,
From a friend in Germany who does work in privacy. She is looking for people to participate. You might find it interesting!
Hope this helps,
Matt Bishop
The digital fingerprint of a browser can be used to recognize users on websites without their knowledge or consent. This technique is called browser fingerprinting and utilizes the unique combination of several browser characteristics.
If you sign up for participation (no account/password required, no technical knowledge needed), you can test over a longer period of time if you leave unique traces when surfing the Web.
Time required is less than 1 minute per week. Moreover, every 4 weeks participants receive a report as PDF file about the duration of their recognition and comparative values to other participants. You can unsubscribe at any time.
We would also highly appreciate if you distribute this call to your private and professional contacts: friends, relatives, students, colleagues, mailing lists, web forums and so on. If you sign up for participation, you can also use our privacy-preserving social media buttons (Facebook, Twitter) with predefined announcement text. Study details for researchers and other interested people
Here are the preliminary study statistics:
We are going to release an open data set of fingerprints. Till now, everybody doing research on countermeasures to browser fingerprinting has to collect their own data sets, and this is extremely time-consuming.
Our data set will be especially useful for research, because through our study design we have an unprecedented level of ground truth: We can assign each fingerprint to a particular (of course, anonymized) participant. In all other projects, recurring participants are recognized through cookies, which is quite error-prone, as people delete their cookies.
Moreover, participants voluntarily fill in a small demographic survey (this data will not be released in the open data set), such that we can assess the representativeness of our study for the Internet users worldwide.
Thanks!
Zinaida Benenson
Human Factors in Security and Privacy
Group Chair for IT Security Infrastructures
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
http://www1.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/staff/zina
You can now sign up for lab #1 grading. Each block is 15 minutes long, and each team (not individual!) signs up for a block. Pick a time when all team members can come. If none of the listed times work, please email me to schedule another time.
The URL is for signing up is: http://doodle.com/poll/r7fmr7irvb96a75n Hope this helps,Matt Bishop
Folks,
As announced in class, homework 2 and Lab Exercise 2 are now due on October 21.
Hope this helps,
Matt Bishop
You are welcome to print the chapters of the book, but please do not distribute it beyond the class.
These are now available for you to work on.
Hi class,
You can find all the papers in the below directory.
Tina
Hi everybody,
In order to submit Lab exercise #1, Prof. Bishop prefers to submit it one per team, but either is fine.
Best,
Tina
Hi class,
Starting next week, I will be holding my office hours on Tuesday from 9:30 am to 11 am (Kemper 53) and on Thursday from 9:00 am to 10:30 am(Kemper 55).
Best,
Tina
Hi class,
The problem with downloading VMs was solved. Thanks for letting us know about the problem.
best,
Tina
Folks,
If you are having trouble finding a lab partner or partners, please use the Chat Room on Canvas.
Hope this helps,
Matt Bishop
[UPDATE: You can now get to the VMs just as before. The error that caused the 403 response has been fixed.]
Folks,
Some people reported problems with the networking on these systems. What is happening is that the VMs were set up to use DHCP to get IP addresses. This works if you're on a network with a DHCP server that will respond, but not otherwise. The solution is to set the IP addresses manually.
You can do this using ifconfig. Or, to make things easy, you can download new versions of the VMs that have the IP addresses pre-configured (they are 10.0.0.4 and 10.0.0.5).
Thanks to all who reported this difficulty!
Hope this helps,
Matt Bishop
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