Somewhat unrelated, but - is it just me or do other people notice too, that whenever a major university publishes course materials online, the instructors there are normally very young? It wasn't like that a while ago, e.g. when Coursera started, or it is not like that if you look at older MIT videos.
Does it reflect university teachers getting younger? Or younger teachers tend to give more effort to putting everything online? Or did my perception change with age?
porridgeraisin 3 hours ago [-]
Younger teachers get "out there" for the same class of reasons software developers today want to be more "out there" - website,twitter,etc - compared to the relatively quieter personal websites of the last generation.
klop1 10 hours ago [-]
I actually did these a while ago. Courses taught me a lot and have recommended it to friends since. Very grateful for the course team for making everything public :)
Akhilmurali 10 hours ago [-]
Hey! I was curious how did you get access to the lectures? You said that the material is public, can you please help me locate the lecture vidoes?
stavros 5 hours ago [-]
I have the same question, I'd love to watch the presentations in my own time, but I don't want to sign up for something that will have strict deadlines, as my schedule doesn't allow that.
Does anyone know which kind of the two above this course is? I couldn't find that info.
7 hours ago [-]
mettamage 10 hours ago [-]
Reminds me of hardware security at VUSEC Amsterdam :)
Good times!
brcmthrowaway 15 hours ago [-]
Does this include Spectre?
jprx 12 hours ago [-]
Yes!
Our labs include building your own real spectre attack against the kernel, bypassing ASLR and building ROP chains with various side channels, finding and exploiting backdoors in a RISC-V CPU by building a hardware fuzzer, and more.
(source: I designed the Spectre lab plus a few others)
If you give them a try, please do let us know what you think! We genuinely want these activities to be fun and approachable (we designed them like a big CTF) and welcome feedback from the community.
SilverSlash 8 hours ago [-]
Any plans to make lecture videos available as well?
brcmthrowaway 11 hours ago [-]
Do you support arm64e?
LPisGood 15 hours ago [-]
It starts with necessary background into cache side channels and covers transient execution attacks like Spectre.
oicu 13 hours ago [-]
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OpenTitan (RISC-V based tamper-resistant open specification RoT/TPM/SE) themselves have a neat write-up on designing against hardware attacks: https://opentitan.org/book/doc/security/implementation_guide... / mirror: https://archive.vn/UqAVo
Does it reflect university teachers getting younger? Or younger teachers tend to give more effort to putting everything online? Or did my perception change with age?
Does anyone know which kind of the two above this course is? I couldn't find that info.
Good times!
Our labs include building your own real spectre attack against the kernel, bypassing ASLR and building ROP chains with various side channels, finding and exploiting backdoors in a RISC-V CPU by building a hardware fuzzer, and more.
(source: I designed the Spectre lab plus a few others)
All our labs are fully open source for anyone to try: https://github.com/MATCHA-MIT/SHD-StarterCode
If you give them a try, please do let us know what you think! We genuinely want these activities to be fun and approachable (we designed them like a big CTF) and welcome feedback from the community.