CS 480: Computers and Society

Topics

• Course introduction (January 22)
slides
• Digital Divide (January 24)

U.N. Report Declares Internet Access a Human Right
The Internet Is a Universal Human Right. Just Ask the Homeless
Is Online Education Widening the Digital Divide?
Pushing People to Code Will Widen the Gap Between Rich and Poor



• Community Partner Introduction (January 27)



• Service Learning Orientation (January 29)
Readings: 3 articles in Canvas



• Confidentiality and Encryption
  Diffie-Hellman
  RSA
  Public-key cryptography slides
  Symmetric Key Cryptography slides
  
  
• Authentication and Digital Signature
  Hash slides
  
  
  
• Privacy and Surveillance
  Cookie slides
  Same Origin Policy for JavaScript
  Online Behavioral Tracking page at EFF
  
  
  
• TCP/IP and Packet Analysis
  WireShark - packet sniffer Background on TCP/IP and Internet structure:
  • Overview of TCP/IP and the Internet Gary Kessler.
  • A Technical Overview of TCP/IP IBM Redbooks
  • Another free guide to TCP/IP



• Socket Programming
  Socket Programming
  RSA algorithm in Java
  How to store objects to files and load them back
  
  
  
• ACM Code of Ethics
  ACM Code of Ethics
  Case Study
  
  
  
• Reliability and Risk
  slides
  Top-down design by Prof. Parr
  Unit testing with JUnit