Links

Please send me any links you find that seem relevant to anything we have covered in class, or which deal with any aspects of computer security. Also, please let me know if any of the links below do not work.

See the links from Fall 2004 and Fall 2003

Links and Media Coverage (reverse chronological order):

User password selection (thanks to Nikolas Coukouma)
To aim ads, Web is keeping closer eye on you (New York Times); see also Adblock (thanks to Steve Moskovchenko)
Reading encrypted hard drives by reading keys off memory chips (thanks to David Sorber)
TrueCrypt, an open-source disk encryption tool (thanks to David Sorber)
Wikipedia article discussing Thompson's article. Here, it is claimed that Thompson actually implemented (and distributed?) the attack (thanks to Joe Ridge and Steve Moskovchenko)