CS338 Computer Security
Friday, 25 October 2024

+ Software regulation story
- https://news.risky.biz/the-eu-throws-a-hand-grenade-on-software-liability/
- product does harm; who, if anyone, should be liable?

+ Assignment
- Cookie event sequences
    - [diagram/list of communication event flows]
    - First time you visit a site, how does a cookie get set?
    - When you visit a site after that, what happens with the cookie?
- Other questions?

+ Cookie abuse
- How could Facebook track your movements around the internet?
- Same question, but ad companies
- Lorie Cranor's research on privacy user interfaces

+ nc, etc.
- some important ideas
    - IP address visibility
    - address translation at network borders
    - how does a packet get from here to there [long story!]
    - how can we view what's going on? [sometimes very hard!]
- my_ip.php
    - cs.carleton.edu/faculty/jondich/courses/cs338_f24/my_ip.php
    - danger.jeffondich.com/my_ip.php
- chatting-with-nc experiments
- interfaces, routing tables, ...

+ new assignment: reverse shells
- diagram
- visibility issue