Free/online books we'll use in the course. Other
readings will be linked here as well.
August 30 -- September 3
Internet Background and Basics
No synopsis, reading quiz
- The Internet as System
and Spirit, Appendix from Blown to
Bits, by Abelson, Ledeen, and Lewis, excerpted by Creative Commons
license.
-
Code is Law by Lawrence Lessig, Code 2.0, 2006
-
The Future of the Internet is ... regulation?, by Nate Anderson, ars
technica, February 10, 2009
- skim, optional but good Introduction
to Internet Architecture and Institutions, by Ethan Zuckerman and
Andrew McLaughlin, Berkman Center, 2003.
Sept 6 -- Sept 10
Copyright and the DMCA
Group 1 synopsis, due Sept 9
Background
-
NFL and Copyright (see link in article to video)
- Copycats
vs. Copyrights, Fashion and Copyright, Ezra Klein, August 20, 2010.
Techdirt
Commentary on the article
-
Intellectual Property for CS Students (Introduction
and DMCA section)
Articles
-
Unintended Consequences: Ten Years under the DMCA, 2008, EFF
-
Circumventing
Authority: Loopholes in the DMCA's Access Controls, Rucker, Duke
Law, 2009.
- Watch Global, Cache Local:
YouTube Network Traffic at a Campus Network -- Measurements
and Implications, Zink, Suh, Gu, and Kurose, MMCN 2008. technical
Sept 13 -- Sept 17
IP and Patents
Group 2 synopsis, due Sept 16
Background
-
Could Facebook patent hurt social media, Ian Paul,
msnbc.com/PCWorld, February 26, 2010.
-
Debunking the 'Patent Troll' Myth, Ron Epstein, Businessweek,
February 1, 2010.
-
Intellectual Property for CS Students (patent
section)
-
Video
Prison: Why Patents Might Threaten Free Online Video
James Losey, Tom Glaisyer, Kara Hadge, Wendy Seltzer, July 2, 2010.
Articles
-
What Intellectual Property Law
Should Learn from Software, James Boyle, CACM, 2009.
-
Software
Patents--Obstacles to software development, Richard Stallman, March 2002.
-
The Software Patent
Experiment, Robert Hunt, James Bessen, 2004 Business Review,
Federal Reserve Bank. technical
Sept 20 -- Sept 24
Open Source and Licensing
Group 3 synopsis, due Sept 23
Background
-
Four Nerds and a Cry to Arms Against Facebook, Jim Dwyer, New York
Times, May 11, 2010.
- Of
course Microsoft loves open source, Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet, August
25, 2010.
-
Sony Shifts on Open Source, Wall Street Journal Blog/Digits, Daisuke
Wakabayashi, May 21, 2010
Articles
-
Why "Open Source" Misses the
Point
of Free Software, Richard Stallman, CACM, June 2009.
- Open Source Baselines:
Compared to What? by Lawrence Lessig, 2002, (from
book, Government Policy Toward Open Source Software, ed. Robert
Hahn.
-
The Scope of Open
Source Licensing by Lerner and Tirole, Journal of Law, Economics,
& Organization, V21, N1, 2005. technical
Sept 27 -- Oct 1
Peer-to-Peer
No assigned synopsis, reading quiz and assignment
Background
-
Hollywood's
Choice: 99-cents or nothing, Fortune/CNNMoney, Philip Elmer-DeWitt,
August 25, 2010.
-
Encrypted
and obfuscated? Your P2P protocol can still be IDed, ars technica,
Nate Anderson, August 2010.
- Illegal P2P File Sharing
on College Campuses---What's the Solution", Antionette Bishop,
Vanderbilt (Law School) Journal of Entertainment and Technology, v. 10,
n. 3, 2008.
-
Free Riding in BitTorrent is
Cheap, Locher, Moor, Schmid, Wattenhofer. HotNets 2006. technical
Oct 4 -- Oct 8
We have the midterm exam this week, there are no extra readings. The
midterm will cover all readings and class materials. There will be both
an in-class and a take-home part to the midterm. We have a guest speaker
on Monday of this week.
Oct 11 -- Oct 15
Fall break is this week, we'll have surveys
and in-class work but no required readings
for this week.
Oct 18 -- Oct 22
Facebook: Scaling Networks and Privacy
Group 1 synopsis, due Oct 21
Background
-
Facebook privacy settings: Who cares? by danah boyd and Eszter
Hargittai
- Scaling
Facebook to 500 Million Users and Beyond by Robert Johnson
Articles
-
Privacy, professionalism and Facebook: a dilemma for young doctors,
by Joanna MacDonad, Sangsu Sohn, Pete Ellis. Medical Education 44, 2010,
805-813.
- Internet social
network communities: Risk taking, trust, and privacy concerns,
Computers in Human Behavior, 2009, 153-160.
- Understanding
Online Social Network Usage from a Network Perspective, by
Schneider, Feldman, Krishnamurthy, and Wilinger, IMC, '09. technical
Oct 25 -- Oct 29
Internet Governance and Architecture
Group 2 synopsis, due Oct 28
Background
- Save the Internet,
website advocating for Net Neutrality
-
Google Public Policy Blog on Net Neutrality
Articles
-
Who Should Govern the Internet?
by Nanda Kumar and Abbe Mowshowitz, CACM, 2006.
-
'Rough Consensus and Running Code'
and the Internet-OSI Standards War, Andrew Russell, IEEE
Annals of the History of Computing, 2006.
- Tussle in Cyberspace
by Clark, Wroclawski, Sollins, and Braden, 2005. technical
Nov 1 -- Nov 5
Cyberwar, Malware, Cybercrime
Group 3 synopsis, due Nov 4
Background
-
In Digital Combat, U.S. Finds no Easy Deterrent, NY Times, January
25, 2010. Markoff, Sanger, Shanker.
- U.S. military
cyberwar: What's off-limits?, Declan McCullagh, cnet news, July 29, 2010.
-
Incidents
of the Week: Iranian Cyber Army Targets Twitter & $26 Software
Application Intercepts U.S. Military Satelite [sic] Feeds In Iraq,
Gabriel Helmer, Security, Privacy and the Law Blog, December 2009.
Articles
-
Next Generation of Terrorism: Ubiquitous Cyber Terrorism with the
Accumulation of all Intangible Fears, Chu, Deng, Chao, Huang,
Journal of Universal Computer Science, v 15. n. 12, 2009.
- Cybercrime 2.0: When
the Cloud Turns Dark, CACM, April 2009, Provos, Rajab, Mavrommatis.
-
Your Botnet is My Botnet:
Analysis of a Botnet Takeover, Stone-Gross, Cova, Cavallaro,
Gilbert, Szydlowski, Kemmerer, Kruegel, and Vigna, Conference and
Commmunications Security (CCS), 2009. technical
Nov 8 -- Nov 12
Privacy and Anonymity
Group 1 synopsis, due Nov 11
Background
-
1,000s
of Web cam images, suit says, Philadelphia Inquirer, John Martin,
April 16, 2010.
-
Teenage
Insults, Scrawled on Web, Not on Walls, Tamar Lewin, NY Times, May
5, 2010.
-
Lesson
From Tor Hack: Anonymity and Privacy Aren't the Same, Bruce
Schneier, Wired, September, 2007.
Articles
-
Exposed:
The Erosion of Privacy in the Internet Era, Harvard Magazine, Sept. 2009,
see also
mirrored copy at Duke
-
Radical
Opacity,
Julian Dibbell, MIT Technology Review, Sept/Oct 2010. The article
likely requires a password, instead read this
mirrored
article/website at Duke or
paper in PDF at Duke
-
Anonymity Loves Company: Usability and the Network Effect,
Dingledine, Mathewson, WEIS 2006. technical
Nov 15 -- Nov 19
Crowdsourcing
Group 2 synopsis, due Nov 18
Background
-
Should we trust the wisdom of crowds? Tom de Catella, BBC News
Magazine, July 5, 2010.
- Iranian
Protests Becoming Crowd-Sourced Cyber War, Kit Eaton, Fastcompany,
Jun 17, 2009.
- (skim)
The Rise
of
Crowdsourcing, Jeff Howe, Wired, June 2006.
Articles
-
Open-Source Spying, Clive Thompson, NY Times Magazine, December 3, 2006.
Article stored locally
-
Shirky and Sanger, or the costs of
crowdsourcing, Mathiew O'Neil, Journal of Science Communication,
9(1), March 2010.
-
Measuring Online Service Availability
Using Twitter, Motoyama, Meeder, Levchenko, Voelker, Savage, WOSN,
June 2010. technical
Nov 22 -- Nov 26
This week is Thanksgiving, there are no required readings for this week.
Nov 29 -- Dec 3
Censorship
Group 3 synopsis, due Dec 2
Background
-
Cashing in on Internet censorship, Lara Farrar, CNN.com, February
19, 2010.
-
Accidentally Importing Censorship, Earl Zmijewski, renesys blog,
March 30, 2010.
-
Iranians
and Others Outwit Net Censors, John Markoff, NY Times, April 30,
2009. (If site requires login try mirrored copy)
Articles
- Firewalls and Power: An
Overview of Global State Censorship of the Internet, Deibert and
Villeneuve, 2004.
-
Commercial Internet filters:
Perils and Opportunities, Chou, Sinha, Zhao, Decision Support
Systems, 48, 2010, 521-530.
technical
-
U.S. Initiatives to Promote Global Internet
Freedom: Issues, Policy, Technology, Figliola,
Nakamura, Addis, Lum, CRS Report for Congress, www.crs.gov, March 17,
2010.
Dec 6 -- Dec 10
Problematic Internet Use: Bullying, Gambling, ...
reading quiz only, no synopsis
Background
-
Internet
Gambling vs Focus on Family Pokernews, August 25, 2010
-
Online Bullies Pull Schools into the Fray, Jan Hoffman, NY Times,
June 27, 2010.
Articles
- Forensic Evaluation
of Problematic Internet Use, Patricia Recupero, Journal of American
Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 36:505-14, 2008.
-
Is the Internet for Porn? An Insight into the Online Adult Industry,
Wondracek, Holz, Platzer, Kirda, Kruegel, WEIS 2010. technical