| Date | Topic&Presentation | Article | Presenter | Scriber |
| Aug. 26 | Course outline and Questionnaire |
MBTA v. Anderson case Hack the Olympics! Olympic Hacking Part II | N/A | N/A |
| Aug. 28 | Crypto in Privacy and Anonymity | N/A | N/A | Bob Arens |
| Sep. 2 | Network basics for Privacy and Anonymity | N/A | N/A | Madhuri Rapaka |
| Sep. 4 | Mixer | Chaum. Untraceable electronic mail, return addresses, and digital pseudonyms Communications of the ACM. 24(2) 1981. | EJ Jung | Dustin Nohr |
| Sep. 4 | User's perception on privacy and anonymity | Conti and Sobiesk. An honest man has nothing to fear: user perceptions on web-based information disclosure. Proceedings of the 3rd symposium on Usable privacy and security, 2007. | EJ Jung | Dustin Nohr |
| Sep. 9 | Anonymous web browsing | Levine and Shields. Hordes: a multicast based protocol for anonymity. Journal of Computer Security, Vol. 10, Num. 3, 2002, pp. 213-240. | Matt Hootman slides | Joe Trapani |
| Sep. 9 | Protecting VoIP | Srivatsa et al. Preserving Caller Anonymity in Voice-over-IP Networks. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2008. | EJ Jung slides | Joe Trapani |
| Sep. 11 | Cookies | This reading material list is based on Prof. Bellovin's with his approval.
| EJ Jung | Madhuri Rapaka |
| Sep. 16 | Wiretapping | This reading material list is based on Prof. Bellovin's with his approval. Background reading on CALEA — don't prepare review on this. Electronic Privacy Information Center - Wiretapping
|
EJ Jung slides | Thomas Hornbeck |
| Sep. 18 | Privacy and Transparency in Voting | N/A | Prof. Doug Jones | Dustin Nohr |
| Sep. 23 | Tor Attacks on Tor | Dingledine et. al. Tor: the second-generation onion router. Proceedings of the 13th conference on USENIX Security Symposium, 2004. Murdoch and Danezis. Low-cost traffic analysis of Tor. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2005. | Peter Likarish slides | Mike Schmoll |
| Sep. 25 | Graph basics for social networks | EJ Jung | Mike Schmoll | |
| Sep. 30 | Anonymity in Social Network | Backstrom et. al. Wherefore art thou r3579x?: anonymized social networks, hidden patterns, and structural steganography Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web (WWW) 2007. | Ben Harner slides | Matt Wittenburg |
| Sep. 30 | Anonymity in Social Network | Hay et al. Anonymizing social networks. UMass Technical Report. 2007. | Hung Tran slides | Matt Wittenburg |
| Oct. 2 | Anonymity in Social Network | Diaz et. al. On the Impact of Social Network Profiling on Anonymity. The 8th International Symposium on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETS 2008). | Saranya Thirumoolan | Tiffany Brenneman |
| Oct. 2 | Anonymity in Social Network | Korolova et al. Link Privacy in Social Networks. IEEE 24th International Conference on Data Engineering, 2008. ICDE 2008. | Saranya Thirumoolan | Tiffany Brenneman |
| Oct. 7 | Database basics for P&A | EJ Jung | Tiffany Brenneman | |
| Oct. 9 | Privacy in Databases | Sweeney. k-anonymity: a model for protecting privacy. International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems, 2002. | Manzoor Murshed | Matt Wittenburg |
| Oct. 9 | Privacy in Databases | Machanavajjhala et. al. l-Diversity: Privacy Beyond k-Anonymity. ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, 2007. | Kedar Kulkarni | Matt Wittenburg |
| Oct. 14 | Privacy in Databases | Xiao and Tao. M-invariance: towards privacy preserving re-publication of dynamic datasets. Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMOD Int'l Conference on Management of Data, 2007. | Paul Cotton | Mark Richmond |
| Oct. 14 | Privacy in Database | Li et. al. t-Closeness: Privacy Beyond k-Anonymity and l-Diversity Proceedings of IEEE 23rd Int'l Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2007. | Paul Cotton | Mark Richmond |
| Oct. 16 | Privacy in Database | Dwork. Differential Privacy 33rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming---ICALP 2006, Part II, pp. 1--12, 2006. | Patrick McDonough | Cameron Littke |
| Oct. 16 | Privacy in Hardware | Lest We Remember: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys Proceedings of 17th Usenix Security Symposium, 2008. | Nick Arnold | Cameron Littke |
| Oct. 21 | Hippocratic Databases | Agrawal et al. Hippocratic databases. Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), 2002. | JT Kimbell | Jed Wendell |
| Oct. 21 | Hippocratic Databases | LeFevre et. al. Limiting disclosure in Hippocratic databases. Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), 2004. | Timothy VanFosson | Jed Wendell |
| Oct. 23 | Privacy in Search | Jones et al. "I know what you did last summer": query logs and user privacy Proceedings of the 16th ACM Conference on information and knowledge management, 2007. | Brandon Hass | Joe Trapani |
| Oct. 28 | Privacy in Search | Song et al. Practical techniques for searches on encrypted data. Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2000. | Kedar Kulkarni | Alex Halfpenny |
| Oct. 28 | Privacy in Search | Boneh et al. Public Key Encryption with Keyword Search. Advances in Cryptology - EUROCRYPT 2004. | Cuong Bui | Alex Halfpenny |
| Oct. 30 | Privacy in Data Mining | Agrawal et. al. On the design and quantification of privacy preserving data mining algorithms. Proceedings of the twentieth ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART symposium on Principles of database systems, 2001. | Manzoor Murshed | Mark Richmond |
| Oct. 30 | Attacks in Data Mining | Narayanan and Shmatikov. Robust De-anonymization of Large Sparse Datasets IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2008. SP 2008. | Ben Hesford | Mark Richmond |
| Nov. 4 | Ubiquitious Computing | Saponas et. al. Devices That Tell On You: Privacy Trends in Consumer Ubiquitous Computing. Proceedings of 16th Usenix Security Symposium, 2007. | Jonathan Hall | Alex Halfpenny |
| Nov. 4 | OAuth | OAuth - Getting Started (no review required) OpenID identity discovery with XRI and XRDS | Xin Zhang | Alex Halfpenny |
| Nov. 6 | Privacy in Health | J. Young and A.I. Anton, Are Google Health's Privacy Practices Healthy? The Privacy Place. | Kevin Tangney | Cameron Littke |
| Nov. 6 | Privacy in Health | Is That Vault Really Protecting Your Privacy? The Privacy Place. | Kevin Tangney | Cameron Littke |
| Nov. 6 | Privacy in Policy | DHS Privacy Office Official Guidances | Kevin Tangney | Cameron Littke |
| Nov. 6 | Privacy in Policy | HHS Office for Civil Rights - HIPAA | Kevin Tangney | Cameron Littke |
| Nov. 11 | Attacks in Side Channels | Balzorotti et al. ClearShot: Eavesdropping on Keyboard Input from Video IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2008. | Jason Fries | Robert Everson |
| Nov. 11 | Privacy economics | Vila et al. Why we can't be bothered to read privacy policies: models of privacy economics as a lemons market. Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Electronic commerce, 2003. | Brian Williams | Robert Everson |
| Nov. 13 | Law and Privacy | Guest lecture | Prof. Randall Bezanson | Robert Everson |
| Nov. 18 | Ethics | Guest lecture | Bob Arens | Jed Wendell |
| Nov. 20 | Ethics | Guest lecture | Bob Arens | Thomas Hornbeck |
| N/A | Privacy in Policy | Privacy Guidance
General in White House | ||
| N/A | Privacy in Policy | Guide to U.S. Census Bureau Data Stewardship/Privacy Impact Assessments | ||
| Privacy in Policy | Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act | N/A | ||
| Privacy in Policy | Electronic Privacy Information Center - Wiretapping | N/A | ||
| Other Anonymous Systems | Nambiar and Wright. Salsa: a structured approach to large-scale anonymity. Proceedings of the 13th ACM conference on Computer and communications security, 2006. | N/A | ||
| Other Anonymous Systems | Clarke et al. Freenet: A Distributed Anonymous Information Storage and Retrieval System Proceedings of International Workshop on Design Issues in Anonymity and Unobservability 2000. | N/A | ||
| Nov. 25 and 27 | Thanksgiving break | N/A | N/A | |
| Dec 2 and 4 | Term paper presentation | N/A | N/A | |
| Dec 9 and 11 | Term paper presentation | N/A | N/A |