Author Archives: Tadayoshi Kohno

Moving to a Forum

For CSE 484 this year, we have switched from the blog format to the forum format.  The course website is online at http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/484/10wi/.  This year’s forum is online at https://catalysttools.washington.edu/gopost/board/kohno/14597/.  We switched from the blog format to the forum format … Continue reading

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What to contribute (Winter 2009 CSE 484 / CSE M 584)

Welcome to 2009 and another rendition of CSE 484 / CSE M 584, the University of Washington undergraduate and 5-th year Masters computer security course.  Please familiarize yourself with this post from last year; it explains why we have this … Continue reading

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Pacemaker and Implantable Defibrillator Security Paper at Oakland

University of Washington CSE PhD student Dan Halperin et al.‘s paper on the security and privacy for pacemakers and implantable defibrillators just received the Best Paper Award at the annual IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (a.k.a. the “Oakland” conference). Dan and … Continue reading

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Happy Spring Break!

Have a great spring break everyone! To readers of this blog: Please expect low activity for a while. The University of Washington is on the quarter system, and our quarter just ended. Everyone in the class is, of course, encouraged … Continue reading

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In the news this week…

There’s been a lot of security-related issues in the news this week (just like every week, actually). I thought I’d fuel the discussions by listing a few of them. I thought I’d also provide some links to topics that 3ric … Continue reading

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Pakistan ISPs, Routing, and YouTube

Here’s a link to the article I mentioned today in class, which is related to the material that we covered on Friday: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/02/pakistan_censorship_order_take.html (from The Washington Post). Here’s a quote from the article: So, what happened? From everything I’ve read … Continue reading

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Example Security Review #5

Michael Levine provided this example CSE 490K Security Review.

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Example Security Review #4

John Kurkowski provided this example CSE 490K Security Review.

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Example Security Review #3

Here’s another example CSE 490K Security Review.

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Example Security Review #2

Erin Covington provided this example CSE 490K Security Review.

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