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- Falcon Darkstar Momot@falcondarkstarmo
Falcon Darkstar Momot uploaded the file Falcon Darkstar Momot's RLO for Peer Review December 1, 2014 - 1:42am

The topic of the RLO is an overview of information security topics.
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- Eric Pelletier@ericpe14
  
  Eric Pelletier December 8, 2014 - 8:39pm
  Hi Falcon,
  This is an excellent RLO! In particular, some of the external sources you include as part of readings or exercises are great examples of the concepts being discussed.
  Eric
- Sadia Khan@sadiakh3
  
  Sadia Khan December 9, 2014 - 8:59am
  Hi Falcon,
  Great RLO! I have learnt a lot about the security flaws in systems. This RLO will be a consultation guide for me in future.
  Well done.
- Falcon Darkstar Momot@falcondarkstarmo
Falcon Darkstar Momot created a wiki page Unit 4 - Thoughts October 5, 2014 - 11:18pm

The RLO is not very different from the course format I have experienced at AU thus far. It is effectively the same as the course format, except not broken down into weeks. It even has alternating readings and exercises. It is,...
- Falcon Darkstar Momot@falcondarkstarmo
Falcon Darkstar Momot created a wiki page Unit 3 - Thoughts September 28, 2014 - 11:34pm

Describe the strengths and weaknesses of Wikipedia. Why does this course (and many others) not allow wikipedia references to be used as primary references in academic papers (i.e. TME1, TME2, RLO project)? Wikipedia is an immensely useful...
- Falcon Darkstar Momot@falcondarkstarmo
Falcon Darkstar Momot created a wiki page Unit 2 - Thoughts September 20, 2014 - 2:32am

Food for thought: A popular search engine is beneficial because it will likely have the resources to do an effective job. Searching involves an automatic process of categorical matching; efforts to catalogue Internet content manually have met with...
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- M@mahdeejo
  
  M October 10, 2014 - 4:28pm
  There is a new search engine called www.startpage.com. It uses google.com however it is more privacy friendly and it does not track users, it allows proxy viewing of websites. In case a page is being blocked in your region you can easily click on proxy browsing and view the page.
- Falcon Darkstar Momot@falcondarkstarmo
Falcon Darkstar Momot created a wiki page Unit 2 - Exercises September 20, 2014 - 2:31am

I thought I might get a bit of a jump on unit 2, since next week might be fairly busy for me. Continuing with my previous topic, control flow integrity, I did a search on google. It's a fairly academic topic, so just by double-quoting the search...
- Falcon Darkstar Momot@falcondarkstarmo
Falcon Darkstar Momot created a wiki page Unit 1 - Thoughts September 14, 2014 - 12:50am

I use a few online services for information. The one I like most is the stack exchange network of sites. I have lots of reputation on serverfault.com (http://serverfault.com/users/126699/falcon-momot), and I've written a couple useful...
- Falcon Darkstar Momot@falcondarkstarmo
Falcon Darkstar Momot created a wiki page Unit 1 - Exercises September 14, 2014 - 12:30am

For this assignment, I am researching control flow integrity in programs. I intermittently research this topic at work and it is an interesting topic in secure computer systems; many approaches to enhancing it build on academic work and are amenable...
- Falcon Darkstar Momot@falcondarkstarmo
Falcon Darkstar Momot created a wiki page Falcon Darkstar Momot's Notebook September 9, 2014 - 11:31am

This is my notebook for the course. For entries, please see the right sidebar to view subpages.

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