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1) An evening at the Museum of Malware

Class,

The Malware Museum was opened 4 days ago at https://archive.org/details/malwaremuseum (Links to an external site.).

You will join the first week visitor to the museum on Tuesday, Feb 8th 2016 evening. This will be a virtual field trip in lieu of our face-to-face class meeting. 

What is Malware Museum

"The Malware Museum is a collection of malware programs, usually viruses, that were distributed in the 1980s and 1990s on home computers. Once they infected a system, they would sometimes show animation or messages that you had been infected. Through the use of emulations, and additionally removing any destructive routines within the viruses, this collection allows you to experience virus infection of decades ago with safety". Archive.org

Objective

Visit the Museum, choose a malware from the collection and study it.  Post a brief description of the Malware and it capabilities. Your post should be in your own words based on your understanding of the malware that you examined. Text-book style posts are discouraged. 

2) Role of Cryptography in modern Society

2016 is an election year in the United States. What role will cryptography play during the election process? Think about secure one-to-one communication, multi-party communication, multiparty computation etc. All posts must be at least 125 words long. 

1)

An evening at the Museum of Malware

Class,

The Malware Museum was opened 4 days ago

at

https://archive.org/details/malwaremuseu

m

(Links

to

an

external

site.

)

.

You will join the

first wee

k visitor to the museum on Tuesday, Feb 8th 2016 evening. This will be

a virtual field trip in lieu of our face

-

to

-

face class meeting.

What is Malware Museum

"The Malware Museum is a collection of malware programs, usually viruses, that were distributed

i

n the 1980s and 1990s on home computers. Once they infected a system, they would sometimes

show animation or messages that you had been infected. Through the use of emulations, and

additionally removing any destructive routines within the viruses, this col

lection allows you to

experience virus infection of decades ago with safety". Archive.org

Objective

Visit the Museum, choose a malware from the collection and study it.

Post a brief description of

the Malware and it capabilities. Your post should be in yo

ur own words based on your

understanding of the malware that you examined. Text

-

book style

posts

are discouraged.

1) An evening at the Museum of Malware

Class,

The Malware Museum was opened 4 days ago

at https://archive.org/details/malwaremuseum (Links to an external site.).

You will join the first week visitor to the museum on Tuesday, Feb 8th 2016 evening. This will be

a virtual field trip in lieu of our face-to-face class meeting.

What is Malware Museum

"The Malware Museum is a collection of malware programs, usually viruses, that were distributed

in the 1980s and 1990s on home computers. Once they infected a system, they would sometimes

show animation or messages that you had been infected. Through the use of emulations, and

additionally removing any destructive routines within the viruses, this collection allows you to

experience virus infection of decades ago with safety". Archive.org

Objective

Visit the Museum, choose a malware from the collection and study it. Post a brief description of

the Malware and it capabilities. Your post should be in your own words based on your

understanding of the malware that you examined. Text-book style posts are discouraged.