MIT's Computer Systems Security (2024)

(csail.mit.edu)

41 points | by barishnamazov 3 hours ago

2 comments

  • tptacek 2 hours ago
    It's a fun class; worth keeping in mind that several topics with 1-2 units here are whole specializations in the field, including:

    * memory safety and exploitation (the "buffer overflow" section is about 20 years out of date, though super appropriate for a first course)

    * the WebPKI/certificates thing

    * messaging security and messaging cryptosystems,

    * microarchitectural security and hardware side channels.

    Multiple full courses on each of these subjects would bring you up to "practitioner" levels of expertise.

  • bikeshaving 1 hour ago
    Seeing this makes me miss the salad days of MOOCs. I learned programming in the 2010s through MIT’s EDX Introduction to Programming course, and then a course on Coursera by Martin Odersky on Functional Programming through EPFL, and I feel like that ladder has been kicked away due to MOOC monetization policies. I wonder if we could return to these days.
    • Obscurity4340 55 minutes ago
      Dont many of them end up as Youtube playlists anyways?