CSCI 435: Anti-Forensics and Digital Privacy

Spring 2024

This course complements CSCI 434 – Digital Forensics by focusing on techniques to reduce the amount of information collected and stored by computer systems, with an emphasis on protecting the system and user from fraud and identity theft resulting from a compromised or stolen system. Concepts related to privacy in the digital world are discussed. Vulnerabilities in digital devices are explored in the context of a dystopian society in which citizens are under perpetual surveillance.

Course Information

• Syllabus

Assignments

Each of the assignment choices below is listed with its corresponding application area. Since this course is used in multiple majors, many of which are outside Computing Sciences, there are some options for each that are less technical than others. That said, you are welcome to choose whichever assignment is most interesting to you, regardless of your major. Read the assignment descriptions for more information.

Choose ONE assignment from the following options. This assignment will be completed during the second half of the semester, since we will read 1984 during the first half.