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Threats to privacy: cookies, forms, logs, and data recovery. Security risks: packet sniffing, passwords, phishing, hacking, viruses and worms, spyware, and zombies. Piracy: WaReZ and cracking.
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This lecture addresses some final points about the CAPM. How would one test the theory? Given the theory, what's the right way to think about evaluating fund managers' performance? Should the manager of a hedge fund and the manager of a university endowment be judged by the same performance criteria? More generally, how should we think about the return differential between stocks and bonds? Lastly, looking back to the lectures on Social Se...more
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Thompson talks about how the most significant event for the security space was not 9/11 but it was 9/18. That is the day a dangerous virus, nimda, hit.
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Thompson talks about how security is a broad domain of technology, including everything from anti-virus to sophisticated authentication authorization technology. Mid to small businesses pose a vast opportunity if security companies can package technology simple enough for these companies, he notes.
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Professor David J. Malan discusses security as it pertains to building dynamic websites.
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This lecture continues the analysis of Social Security started at the end of the last class. We describe the creation of the system in 1938 by Franklin Roosevelt and Frances Perkins and its current financial troubles. For many Democrats, Social Security is the most successful government program ever devised and for many Republicans Social Security is a bankrupt program that needs to be privatized. Is there any way to reconcile the views of...more
