Politics of Security and Privacy

Course modalities

This course will discuss a corpus of research papers centered around (tentatively) four main topics: (1) Activism and censorship, (2) Harms to marginalized populations, (3) External security of nation state actors, and (4) Surveillance capitalism.

As a general introduction, we will start the seminar with a short presentation and discussion on Rogaway's The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work.

Afterward, each seminar participant will present one paper of their choice and lead the discussion on the topic.

Additionally, groups of 3-4 students will create presentation slides to present their overall main topic and create accompanying assignments (and grading scheme). The overall goal is to kickstart the creation of a lecture unit for the Security Core lecture on the topic of Politics of Cybersecurity.

Seminar dates

Grading

To be done

Contact

If you have urgent questions about this seminar contact the team via mail at seminar-polsec@cispa.de