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| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| sep 2 | sep 3 | sep 4 First day of classes |
sep 5 MTG 1 (ms): Introduction |
sep 6 |
| sep 9 | sep 10 MTG 2 (ms): Datacenter Infrastructure (Questions, Answers) Preparation: Read Datacenter Stack (§2.2-2.6; p18-40) Preparation: Read TAO (2013) |
sep 11 | sep 12 MTG 3 (ms): Privacy Legislation (Questions, Answers) Preparation: Read GDPR (Articles 3-6(f), 7, 12-22, 25-34, 77-80, 82-83) Assigned: GDPR case study |
sep 13 |
| sep 16 | sep 17 MTG 4 (ms): Security Architecture (Questions) Preparation: Read Google Security Architecture (2017) |
sep 18 DUE: GDPR case study |
sep 19 MTG 5 (all): GDPR Presentations |
sep 20 DUE: Sign up to present papers |
| sep 23 | sep 24 MTG 6 (ilkhechi): Access Control (Questions, Answers) Preparation: Read Zanzibar (2019) |
sep 25 | sep 26 MTG 7 (asharma7): Information Flow Control (Questions) Preparation: Read DStar (2008) |
sep 27 |
| sep 30 | oct 1 MTG 8 (zfeng9): Applied IFC (1) (Questions, Answers) Preparation: Read Resin (2009) |
oct 2 | oct 3 MTG 9 (awheele9): Applied IFC (2) (Questions, Answers) Preparation: Read Jacqueline (2016) Assigned: Project proposal |
oct 4 |
| oct 7 | oct 8 MTG 10 (ja43): Policy Enforcement (Questions, Answers) Preparation: Read Riverbed (2019) |
oct 9 | oct 10 MTG 11 (cluckett): Encrypted Databases (Questions, Answers) Preparation: Read CryptDB (2011) DUE: Project proposal |
oct 11 |
| oct 14 Indigenous Peoples' Day |
oct 15 MTG 12 (tjiansin): Web Services over Encrypted Data (Questions, Answers) Preparation: Read Mylar (2014) Assigned: Final project |
oct 16 | oct 17 MTG 13 (wyou): Multiverse Databases (Questions, Answers) Preparation: Read Multiverse Databases (2019) |
oct 18 |
| oct 21 | oct 22 MTG 14 (ilim5): GDPR Compliance (Questions, Answers) Preparation: Read Impact on Storage Systems (2019) Preparation: Read Compliance by Construction (2019) |
oct 23 | oct 24 MTG 15 (zlu24): Decentralized Applications (Questions, Answers) Preparation: Read Blockstack (2017) |
oct 25 |
| oct 28 | oct 29 No class, hack on projects |
oct 30 | oct 31 MTG 16 (ms): DIY hosting (Questions) Preparation: Read DIY Hosting (2018) |
nov 1 |
| nov 4 | nov 5 MTG 17 (lzhu7): Federated Machine Learning (Questions, Answers) Preparation: Read Federated Learning (2019) |
nov 6 | nov 7 MTG 18 (gmurtaza): Secure Computation (Questions) Preparation: Read Ryoan (2016) |
nov 8 |
| nov 11 | nov 12 MTG 19 (mgeorge5): Differential Privacy (Questions) Preparation: Watch DP explainer Preparation: Read PINQ (2009) |
nov 13 | nov 14 MTG 20 (agaidis): Private Messaging (Questions, Answers) Preparation: Read Vuvuzela (2015) |
nov 15 |
| nov 18 | nov 19 MTG 21: Project conference |
nov 20 | nov 21 MTG 22 (yyang125): Keybase and KBFS (Questions, Answers) Preparation: Read Following, Keybase and Bitcoin, KBFS |
nov 22 |
| nov 25 | nov 26 MTG 23 (yren17): Privacy Policies (Questions, Answers) Preparation: Read Polisis (2018) |
nov 27 Thanksgiving Recess |
nov 28 Thanksgiving Recess |
nov 29 Thanksgiving Recess |
| dec 2 | dec 3 MTG 24 (xwang31): Web tracking (Questions) Preparation: Read NYT experiment (2019) and history of web tracking (2016) |
dec 4 | dec 5 MTG 25 (ssalman1): Device Security (Questions, Answers) Preparation: Read TaintDroid (2010) |
dec 6 |
| dec 9 DUE: Final project writeup and code |
dec 10 MTG 26 (jrolfe): Location Security (Questions) Preparation: Read Bluetooth Beacons (2019) Preparation: Watch Beacon overview (optional) |
dec 11 | dec 12 MTG 27 (all): Project presentations DUE: Final project presentation Last day of classes |
dec 13 |