Firesheep
- An intro to Firesheep from the ProfHacker blog
- One expert’s opinion that using Firesheep is illegal
- An intro to Blacksheep, designed to protect you from Firesheep
- A report that Blacksheep is easily defeated, featuring a video clip of battling sheep
- A post about the ethics of Firesheep from Eric Butler, its creator
Google Street View
- Google may be in trouble in the US over its Street View Wifi snooping after all. Here’s some background on the Wifi snooping from the BBC back in May when the story broke.
- Three percent of German citizens have requested that Google blur their homes in Street View.
- Clark Boyd of the BBC’s The World reported on the brouhaha over Google Street View in Germany back in May.
- And here’s an update on the Google / Germany situation from the BBC in September.
- Some fun: MapCrunch, the site I mentioned that will teleport you (virtually) around the world using Street View; the mysterious horse-boy spotted on Street View in Scotland; and the “dead body” spotted on Street View in the UK that turned out to be a still-alive 10-year-old girl.
RSA Encryption
- Please note that today and next Tuesday we’re working through various parts of Chapter 4 in the Barr textbook. If you have a copy (or want to use the one on reserve in the science library), you can read along.
- xkcd on security
- xkcd on Alice, Bob, and Eve
- Handout – From Bob to Alice (Part 1)
- Handout – From Bob to Alice (Part 2)
Image: “Fields of Fire” by Flickr user Digimist, Creative Commons licensed. (That’s not actually fire in the photo…)
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