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31 January 2025

• 01:3401:34, 31 January 2025 diff hist +6‎ Evolutionary Security: Winter 2025 ‎ →‎February 4, 2025
• 01:3301:33, 31 January 2025 diff hist +176‎ Evolutionary Security: Winter 2025 ‎ →‎February 4, 2025
• 01:3201:32, 31 January 2025 diff hist +188‎ N EvoSec 2025W Lecture 9 ‎ Created page with "==Discussion Questions== * What is the basic model behind both of these systems? Hint: focus on the figures! * What aspect(s) of security are these models capturing? What are they missing?"
• 01:2701:27, 31 January 2025 diff hist +281‎ Evolutionary Security: Winter 2025 ‎ →‎February 6, 2025
• 01:2201:22, 31 January 2025 diff hist +297‎ Evolutionary Security: Winter 2025 ‎ →‎February 4, 2025
• 01:1801:18, 31 January 2025 diff hist +104‎ Evolutionary Security: Winter 2025 ‎ →‎Class Schedule (Readings & Notes)

30 January 2025

• 18:1018:10, 30 January 2025 diff hist +3,643‎ EvoSec 2025W Lecture 8 ‎No edit summary current
• 16:3816:38, 30 January 2025 diff hist +195‎ EvoSec 2025W Lecture 8 ‎ →‎Discussion Questions
• 16:2616:26, 30 January 2025 diff hist +223‎ N EvoSec 2025W Lecture 8 ‎ Created page with "==Discussion Questions== * How does Tierra work? Specifically, how does program control flow work, how do programs reproduce, and how do they die? * To what extent is Tierra a simple model of the computer security problem?"

28 January 2025

• 22:1522:15, 28 January 2025 diff hist +2,896‎ N EvoSec 2025W Lecture 7 ‎ Created page with "<pre> Lecture 7 --------- SYMBIOSIS Biology questions - what seemed particularly confusing? - swallowing but not digesting? - eukaryotic vs prokaryotic cells - endosymbiosis - microtubules, basal body - how did prokaryotic cells cooperate? cells are encapsulated by membranes - polar/non-polar structures **--------- ^^^ a fat molecule in a membrane (phospolipid) the ** is the polar head, the ---- is the nonpolar body polar = has a bit of a charge nonpol..." current

24 January 2025

• 01:3301:33, 24 January 2025 diff hist +228‎ Evolutionary Security: Winter 2025 ‎ →‎January 30, 2025
• 01:3101:31, 24 January 2025 diff hist +17‎ Evolutionary Security: Winter 2025 ‎ →‎January 16, 2025
• 01:3101:31, 24 January 2025 diff hist +20‎ Evolutionary Security: Winter 2025 ‎ →‎January 14, 2025
• 01:3001:30, 24 January 2025 diff hist +259‎ Evolutionary Security: Winter 2025 ‎ →‎Class Schedule (Readings & Notes)
• 00:5000:50, 24 January 2025 diff hist +2,626‎ N EvoSec 2025W Lecture 6 ‎ Created page with "<pre> Lecture 6 --------- - GFS & Chubby - trust & security - projects, set a schedule What is the problem they are solving? (Why were these built?) - for indexing the web! - i.e., download a copy of the web and process it - many web crawlers grabbing pages, images, etc and needing somewhere to store them Only way to make this work is to have LOTS of computers storing LOTS of data in parallel - how to coordinate? So in GFS, what is a file? - not a regular UNI..." current

21 January 2025

• 23:0423:04, 21 January 2025 diff hist +4,523‎ EvoSec 2025W Lecture 5 ‎No edit summary current
• 16:3516:35, 21 January 2025 diff hist +205‎ N EvoSec 2025W Lecture 5 ‎ Created page with "==Discussion Questions== * What parts of the papers were not clear to you? * What was the trust model of BOINC & OceanStore? * Do we currently use systems that are like BOINC & OceanStore? Why or why not?"

16 January 2025

• 21:0821:08, 16 January 2025 diff hist 0‎ Evolutionary Security: Winter 2025 ‎ →‎Class Schedule (Readings & Notes)
• 21:0821:08, 16 January 2025 diff hist +527‎ Evolutionary Security: Winter 2025 ‎ →‎January 23, 2025
• 21:0721:07, 16 January 2025 diff hist +283‎ Evolutionary Security: Winter 2025 ‎ →‎January 21, 2025
• 21:0621:06, 16 January 2025 diff hist +102‎ Evolutionary Security: Winter 2025 ‎ →‎Class Schedule (Readings & Notes)
• 21:0621:06, 16 January 2025 diff hist +3,499‎ EvoSec 2025W Lecture 4 ‎ →‎Notes current
• 16:3416:34, 16 January 2025 diff hist +243‎ N EvoSec 2025W Lecture 4 ‎ Created page with "==Discussion Questions== * What did you not understand in the readings? Specifically, what biological terms/concepts would you like to learn more about? * How applicable are these readings to computational systems, in your opinion? ==Notes=="

15 January 2025

• 16:4816:48, 15 January 2025 diff hist +1,935‎ N EvoSec 2025W Lecture 3 ‎ Created page with "<pre> Lecture 3 --------- Perspectives on Trust G1 - waking up - do you trust that nothing bad will happen, or you just get up because you have to? - we can decouple, but can machines decouple trust from action? - continuous vs discrete trust - "levels of trust" - how does that affect actions G2 - game theory - prisoner's dilemma, agents are adversaries? where is the sociality of trust - not a full view - trust as black and white vs probability G3 -..." current

14 January 2025

• 14:4414:44, 14 January 2025 diff hist −433‎ Evolutionary Security: Winter 2025 ‎No edit summary

9 January 2025

• 23:2323:23, 9 January 2025 diff hist +19‎ Evolutionary Security: Winter 2025 ‎ →‎Class Schedule
• 23:0723:07, 9 January 2025 diff hist +500‎ Evolutionary Security: Winter 2025 ‎ →‎Class Schedule
• 22:2622:26, 9 January 2025 diff hist +104‎ Evolutionary Security: Winter 2025 ‎ →‎Class Schedule
• 22:1222:12, 9 January 2025 diff hist +6,498‎ N EvoSec 2025W Lecture 2 ‎ Created page with "<pre> Lecture 2 --------- cooperation & trust in the context of evolution Darwinian evolution - population of individuals - reproduction w/ variation + selection life is a game of survival - if you don't survive you're dead your life is a resource for others - can help them live, achieve their goals so Darwinian evolution leads to "fight for survival" thinking - kinda sounds like the Internet today right? - only the secure survive The metaphors of computer s..." current
• 22:0422:04, 9 January 2025 diff hist −12‎ MediaWiki:Sidebar ‎No edit summary current
• 22:0222:02, 9 January 2025 diff hist +3,585‎ N EvoSec 2025W Lecture 1 ‎ Created page with "<pre> Lecture 1 --------- Welcome to Evolutionary Security! - lectures are recorded, but that is just for private use - you'll have access, but they won't be public * Grading, expectations * What this course is about * My history - 1984: first computers (Atari 400, Apple //c, Apple IIgs) - 1989: AI - Medicine + computers? - 1990-1994: MIT - started as biology major, ended up a math major - took premed classes + CS classes (CS theory) - computational..." current
• 22:0022:00, 9 January 2025 diff hist +3‎ Evolutionary Security: Winter 2025 ‎ →‎Literature Review
• 22:0022:00, 9 January 2025 diff hist +1,034‎ Evolutionary Security: Winter 2025 ‎No edit summary

1 January 2025

• 20:1920:19, 1 January 2025 diff hist +904‎ EvoSec 2025W: Course Outline ‎No edit summary current
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• 19:5319:53, 1 January 2025 diff hist +232‎ EvoSec 2025W: Course Outline ‎No edit summary
• 19:1819:18, 1 January 2025 diff hist +2‎ EvoSec 2025W: Course Outline ‎ →‎Course Information
• 19:1719:17, 1 January 2025 diff hist +185‎ EvoSec 2025W: Course Outline ‎ →‎Course Information
• 19:1619:16, 1 January 2025 diff hist −2‎ EvoSec 2025W: Course Outline ‎ →‎Official Course Description
• 19:1619:16, 1 January 2025 diff hist +8‎ EvoSec 2025W: Course Outline ‎ →‎Course Information
• 19:1519:15, 1 January 2025 diff hist 0‎ EvoSec 2025W: Course Outline ‎ →‎Course Information
• 19:1519:15, 1 January 2025 diff hist +202‎ EvoSec 2025W: Course Outline ‎ →‎Course Information
• 19:1319:13, 1 January 2025 diff hist +60‎ EvoSec 2025W: Course Outline ‎ →‎Course Information
• 19:0319:03, 1 January 2025 diff hist +10,898‎ N EvoSec 2025W: Course Outline ‎ Created page with "==Course Information== *'''Course Number:''' COMP 5900H/4900H *'''Term:''' Winter 2025 *'''Title:''' Evolutionary Security *'''Institution:''' Carleton University, School of Computer Science *'''Instructor:''' [https://people.scs.carleton.ca/~soma Anil Somayaji] (anil.somayaji at carleton.ca): office hours by appointment *'''Lectures:''' Tues. and Thurs. 11:35-12:55 via online videoconferencing (see [https://brightspace.carleton.ca Brightspace] for the link), January 7-..."
• 18:4818:48, 1 January 2025 diff hist +94‎ N Evolutionary Security: Winter 2025 ‎ Created page with "==Course Outline== Course outline for Evolutionary Security."
• 18:4618:46, 1 January 2025 diff hist +145‎ Main Page ‎No edit summary current

10 December 2024

• 20:3820:38, 10 December 2024 diff hist +1,494‎ N WebFund 2024F Final Exam QA ‎ Created page with "==Video== Video from the December 10, 2024 review session is now available: * [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/webfund-2024f/lectures/comp2406-2024f-finalqa-20241210.m4v video] ==Notes== <pre> Final Q&A --------- Difference between cookies & sessions? - cookies are a mechanism provided by the browser - to send back data the server has stored in the client (the cookie) - sessions are a server-side concept for grouping multiple HTTP requests together (i..." current

5 December 2024

• 19:0619:06, 5 December 2024 diff hist +181‎ Fundamentals of Web Applications (Fall 2024) ‎ →‎Lectures and Exams
• 19:0419:04, 5 December 2024 diff hist +3,574‎ N WebFund 2024F Lecture 23 ‎ Created page with "==Video== Video from the lecture for December 5, 2024 is now available: * [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/webfund-2024f/lectures/comp2406-2024f-lec23-20241205.m4v video] * [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/webfund-2024f/lectures/comp2406-2024f-lec23-20241205.cc.vtt auto-generated captions] ==Notes== <pre> Lecture 23 ---------- Final exam - Dec. 12, 9 AM - will be on brightspace, same format as midterm - 2.5 hours, open book/internet but no AI..." current