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Computer Hackers: A Gen Ed Class Margaret Hvatum & Tom Cupples

Johan Helsingius penet.fi remailer

Vladimir Levin

Mark Abene

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Eric Stephen Raymond

Linus Torvalds

Richard Stallman

Dennis Ritchie & Ken Thompson

Computer Hackers: A Gen Ed Class

Because everyone needs to keep their information secure



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Mark Abene

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Linus Torvalds

Richard Stallman


Speaker Intro• Margaret Hvatum, Assoc. Professor

– S.B. and S.M. from MIT– 20 years in IS industry– 8 years at St. Louis Community College– Chaired department, District Curriculum

Committee

• Tom Cupples, Asst. Professor– BS, MS, EdD– Industry Consultant– 3 years at St. Louis Community College– CISSP, MCSE, MCSA, MCP, ACP



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MO Gen Ed Knowledge Goals

• Social & Behavioral Sciences

• Humanities & Fine Arts

• Mathematics

• Life & Physical Sciences



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MO Gen Ed Skill Goals

• Managing Information

• Communicating

• Higher-Order Thinking

• Valuing



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STLCC’s Gen Ed

• 42 Credit Hours– 3 hr Cornerstone– 13 hrs of Foundation Classes

• College Composition, Oral Communications, College Algebra

– 22 hrs of Main Floor Classes– 4 hr Capstone Class

• Transfers as a Gen Ed Block statewide



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The Need• Americans depend on

computers for school, work, recreation

• Computers are vulnerable to– Spyware– Viruses– Trojan Horses– Spam– Email hoaxes– Becoming zombies; botnet

members



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The Need

• Information Management means– Learning to use computers– Learning to use applications– Learning to discriminate between

trustworthy and untrustworthy information

– Learning to protect your personal information



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The Issue

• Politics

• IS classes are considered “vocational”

• “Vocational” classes are by definition not Gen Ed



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The Workaround

• Teach a Cornerstone on Hackers

• Cornerstones must:– Teach College Study Skills– Teach Valuing skills– Be Writing-Intensive– Involve Reading, class discussion



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The Cornerstone

• Students read:– Masters of Deception Michelle

Slatalla and Joshua Quittner– Hackers Steven Levy– The Art of Deception Kevin

Mitnick and William Simon– Word and PowerPoint Wiley

Publications



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The Cornerstone

• Students Write:– Eight short papers

1. Do you trust computers?

2. Compare & Contrast MIT hackers vs MOD hackers

3. How did MIT foster innovation?

4. Compare & contrast MOD, LOD, Silicon Valley hackers

5. Memo to Boss after company was hacked



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The Cornerstone

• Students Write:– Eight short papers (continued)

6. If you were Mark Abene, would you have plead guilty?

7. Define Social Engineering and give 3 examples

8. How would you protect yourself or your business against hacking and social engineering?



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The Cornerstone

• Students read– Eric Steven Raymond’s essay “The

Cathedral & The Bazaar”– “Xanadu” by Coleridge– Software Publisher Association’s site– MIT’s “Hackito Ergo Sum” website– US Department of Justice Search &

Seizure Guide– Phrak– Carl Sandburg’s “Fog”



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The Cornerstone

• Students visit– www.epic.org– www.eff.com (Electronic Frontier

Foundation)– www.microsoft.com’s Patch

Management– U.S. State Department’s website

and their implementation of the computer fraud and abuse act

– www.mcafee.com



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The Cornerstone

• Students discuss– Pros and cons of hacking

• Crackers• Hackers• White Hat vs Black Hat

– Cybercriminals– Cyberterrorism potential



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The Cornerstone

• Students learn about– Antivirus software– Personal Firewalls– Antispyware software– Cleaning out cookies– Avoiding web hoaxes– Evaluating and trusting web sites– Copyright, Computer, and Identity

Theft laws



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The Cornerstone

• The challenge:– Class Discussion

• The approach– Worksheets– Group Work– Spy software demo– National Enquirer Article– Hacking Scenarios– Role-Playing with Heckling– Creating software



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The Cornerstone

• Worksheet Example– Viewed “The KGB, The

Computer, and Me” film in class– As they watched it, they filled out

a worksheet with questions about the plot, characters

– Result: They paid attention to film



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Spy Software Demo

• I begin a lecture with PowerPoint• I wait for students to surreptitiously

begin using their PC for “other” things

• I initialize NetTutor – Connect to a student PC– Bring up his PC to full-screen on Data

Projector– Wait for him to notice– It always makes the point



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Group Work Example

• National Enquirer Article– Premise: You are a reporter for

the National Enquirer– Your group must write an article

about the MOD and LOD hackers• Include graphics• Exaggeration is OK

– The results: very creative



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Hacking Scenarios• I have 7 different scenarios; Virus attack, web site

attack, malicious email, home computer attacked, and

• Scenario 6: Your Office is raided by Police• You come into work on Monday. You are a senior

officer at the company. You notice several police cars are in front of the building. When you go to your desk you hear that police have raided your company! They have confiscated the email server and the file server and the database server. They have also confiscated the Internet Usage logs. What is your reaction to this? Is there anything you would worry about? What would you do?

• Scenario 5 is the same, but from the worker’s viewpoint.



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Role-Playing with Heckling

• Objective: Get students to – think about issues – understand differing viewpoints – have heated discussion



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• Groups are:– The Hackers– The Software Developers– The System Administrators– The poor Users– The Military



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• Questions:– What is your experience with

hacking?– Do you see hackers as a positive

or a negative force?– Whose responsibility is security?– Should there be more/less

government regulation?– Any other comments?



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Conclusion

• The General Public needs to Information Security Awareness

• This is a General Education Class

• It must be taught in a lively manner – with good discussion of the issues

• Innovative teaching techniques make this class work

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