Reading questions for:
Camp, Web Security and Privacy:An American Perspective.
CS-80--Senior Seminar
Fall '01

Levent Besik

October 10, 2001

1.
What is the difference between security and privacy? Why secure information is not necessarily private?

2.
What are the goals of security? What aspects of security can both be protecting and limiting privacy at the same time?

3.
What are the tools used to provide security? What are the main types of these tools?

4.
Compare and contrast public and private key cryptography. What issues of private key cryptography are resolved with public key cryptography? Which one is better?

5.
Why do we have privacy issues with just simply surfing the web? What information is exposed about the individal and the system s/he is using? What tools can we use to limit this info?

6.
What is the main difference between the European and the American perspectives of privacy?

7.
What are the privacy rights defined in the American view of privacy? Which amendments in the constitution provides these rights?

8.
What is the major problem with the approach of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) to the Internet?

9.
According to Camp, is it possible to protect privacy on the Internet? Why or why not?

10.
What are pseudonyms? Are they problematic for the privacy and the security on the Web? Why or why not?

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Reading questions for:
Camp, Web Security and Privacy:An American Perspective.
CS-80--Senior Seminar
Fall '01

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