COMPSCI 82, Fall 2011
Technical and Social Foundations of
the Internet
Owen Astrachan
http://www.cs.duke.edu/courses/cps082/fall11
http://www.cs.duke.edu/~ola
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Technical and Social Foundations
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Why should you know something?
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Educated citizenry?
Informed consumer?
Fledgling entrepreneur?
Destinations and travel on the Internet
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What's being transmitted?
How does it know where to go?
Is it all numbers?
How has this transformed the world?
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Course Details
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See the course website for full disclosure
Weekly readings, responses, web/written
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Midterm and Final
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“Open notes”, both have take-home component
Quantitative/Technical/Code Projects
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Make sure you know your group and due dates
Written work: web responses, written responses
Done solo or in pairs
In-class activities, questions, "goodness"
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What can you do with Compsci?
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What can you do with Compsci?
http://bit.ly/1hUNmz
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What can you do with Compsci?
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What can you do with Compsci?
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What can you do with Compsci?
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Headlines and Stories for Compsci 82
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Facebook
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Google
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Privacy, Patents, Cyberwar, Money
Viacom, YouTube, Net-neutrality, Privacy
Cybercrime
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Cyber terror/crime, Assange, Stuxnet?
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Internet: Technical Foundations
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What is IPv4? Who created it? IPv6?
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Who governs the Internet?
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What is a domain name?
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What is a cookie?
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What is the DMCA?
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What is DNS? ICANN?
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What is IP, SMTP, BGP, HTTP?
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Internet: Where is it going?
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Colbert and Zittrain: Future of the Internet
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Chris Anderson on Free
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Making money from free services?
Net Neutrality via YouTube and
ComedyCentral
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Tethering, what happened with 1984/Kindle?
Net Neutrality always in the news?
Richard Stallman in 2009 on copyright
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Free and Open
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Internet People/Personalities
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Tim Berners-Lee and Al Gore
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From Sean Fanning to Mark Zuckerberg …
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Who helped invent the Internet?
Internet transforms society?
Does Google rule the world? Virtual world?
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What about Bing? Twitter? Facebook?
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Jon Postel
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Size matters
DNS
Names
Numbers
ICANN
U.S.A. v World
Photo by Irene Fertik, USC News Service.
Copyright 1994, USC. Permission granted for free use and distribution,
conditioned upon inclusion of the above attribution and copyright notice.
Froomkin, Wrong Turn in Cyberspace
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Google and Scale
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# Queries/day?
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How does Google
make money?
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What about privacy?
Picture of Original Server (Stanford)
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What about gmail?
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Who are these people?
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Court Cases: Legal/Policy/Technology
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How has the Internet changed law?
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IP^2: What Compsci 82 is about?
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How does law change the Internet?
Internet Protocol meets Intellectual Property
Where is there a right to privacy?
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School, home, work?
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US v Boucher
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Border crossing
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pr0n (and child)
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PGP encryption
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5th Amendment
image url
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Copyright Infringement?
ice ice baby (youtube)
Under Pressure (youtube)
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Transformative use of copyright
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Perfect 10 v Google and Amazon
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Copyright images, search versus view
DMCA safe harbor provisions
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Internet, Ideas, Technology, Policy
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Intellectual Property?
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Who governs the Internet
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Government, industry, people, officials?
How does the internet work?
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How do patents, copyrights, and licenses work?
Is this important for user/consumer to know?
Does going digital affect law and society
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Differences between 1991, 2001, and 2011?
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