CISSE 2009
Sergey Bratus and I will be running a Working Group at CISSE 2009 in Seattle June 1, 2, and 3. The topic of the Working Group will be “Hacker Curriculum.” The topic grew out of our efforts to run the SISMAT seminar at Dartmouth College in 2008 and 2009, as well as Sergey’s various articles on the differences between a formal CS education and the self-education and community involvement undertaken by the hacker community.
Upcoming Article on Attack Scripts
The upcoming May/June issue of IEEE S&P magazine has a column (written by me under the “Education” department run by Matt Bishop and Cynthia Irvine) that discusses how we can help students nurture a dual frame of mind when writing code. The article discusses the lack of opportunity, time, and encouragement for students within the traditional CS curriculum to explore the edges of a system or uncover and test the hidden assumptions of a designer or implementor. I’m trying to get my students to write attack scripts with every assignment they submit to help them get into this simultaenous black hat/white hat mindset.
